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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ki·no n. The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.
 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.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rose·wood n. A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
 African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus.
 Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina).
 New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.
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