'Pterocarpus Marsupium' definitions:
Definition of 'Pterocarpus marsupium'
(from WordNet)
noun
East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning [syn: kino, Pterocarpus marsupium]
Definition of 'Pterocarpus Marsupium'
From: GCIDE
- Kino \Ki"no\, n. The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The chief supply is from an East Indian leguminous tree, the Pterocarpus Marsupium. Other sources are the African Pterocarpus erinaceus, the tropical American sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), and several Australian Eucalypti. See Botany bay kino, under Botany bay, Gum butea, under Gum, and Eucalyptus. [1913 Webster]