Nearby Words

kino gum

[kee-noh]

kino gum

[kee-noh]
noun
the reddish or black, catechulike inspissated juice or gum of certain tall trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to India and Sri Lanka, used in medicine, tanning, etc.

Origin:
1820–30; apparently variant of Malinke keno kind of gum
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To kino gum

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Kino gum is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
WordNet
kino gum

noun
1. a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning [syn: kino
2. reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc [syn: East India kino
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature