Definition of Butea kino

1. Noun. Dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent.

Exact synonyms: Bengal Kino, Butea Gum, Gum Butea
Generic synonyms: Gum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butea Kino

butchers' paper
butchers knife
butchershop
butchershops
butches
butchest
butching
butchings
butchly
butchness
butchnesses
butchy
bute
butea gum
butea kino (current term)
butenafine
butenal
butene
butenes
butenoate
butenoates
butenoic
butenoic acid
butenol
butenolide
butenolides
butenyl
butenylidene
butenyls

Literary usage of Butea kino

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"It is very probable, therefore, that the Butea- Kino very closely resembled ... There can be no doubt, however, that the Butea-Kino was one of the original ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"butea kino does not stick to the teeth when chewed like ordinary kino, ... In India butea kino is used instead of the Malabar kino, and is called by the ..."

3. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"butea kino, which in India is used in the place of Malabar kino, was long confounded with the latter by European pharmacologists, though the Indian names of ..."

4. Report by Dr. M.C. Cooke, on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-resins, and Resinous by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1874)
"There can be no doubt, however, that the butea kino was one of the original substitutes for the African kino, and was sold at a high price ..."

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