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Definition of Gum kino
1. Noun. A gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gum Kino
Literary usage of Gum kino
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"It is applied to no useful purpose.—gum kino. The name kino is given to a variety
of gums procured in different countries and from very different trees. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"found that gum kino would tan leather; yet on this subject we need not enlarge,
as we have so lately noticed Mr. Davy's labours. ART. VI. ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1849)
"Both these trees produce an astringent gum, which has been exported for gum-kino,
or whether it was a mixture of both it is not possible to say. ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1849)
"In a valuable article by Dr Royle on gum kino, reprinted in the Journal of the
Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, which ostensibly enumerates ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1897)
"While as much as 4 gallons of red gum kino have been procured from a single tree,
the average is not more than i quart per tree, and from a majority of ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1897)
"The author gives the results of the examination of two specimens of " red gum "
kino collected in different localities in 1888, the one of Victorian origin, ..."
7. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1849)
"T/ie gum kino of the Tenasserim Provinces. By the Rev. F. MASON. In a valuable
article by Dr Royle on gum kino, reprinted in the Journal of the Agricultural ..."
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