eusebio francisco kino

Ki·no   (kē'nō)    Italian-born Jesuit missionary who explored and mapped much of the American Southwest and Mexico.

Main Entry: ki·no
Pronunciation: 'kE-(")nO
Function: noun
1 : any of several dark red to black tannin-containing dried juices or extractsobtained from various tropical trees; especially : the dried juice obtained usually from the trunk of an East Indian tree (Pterocarpus marsupium) as brown or black fragments andused as an astringent in diarrhea
2 : a tree that produces kino (especially Pterocarpus marsupium)

Eusebio Francisco Kino

Jesuit missionary, cartographer, rancher, and explorer in Spanish service, founder of numerous missions in the Pimeria Alta region, now divided between the Mexican state of Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona.

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