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Definition of Gum butea
1. Noun. Dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gum Butea
Literary usage of Gum butea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1909)
"... or Chips Gum Ammoniac gum butea Gum Copal Gum Damar Gum Eucalyptus Gum Euphorbium
Gum Galbanum Gum Olibanum Gum Hemlock Gum, Red Gum Sandarac Gum, ..."
2. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"It is known commonly under the names of Butea Gum, Butea Kino, Bengal Kino, Palas
or Pulas Kino, and Gum of the Palas or Dhak tree. Collection. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Economic Products of the Presidency of Bombay: Being a by George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1862)
"With B. superba, yields GUM-BUTEA, a variety of KINO which is produced also by
Pterocarpus marsupium, Rox. (v. infra), (and Dalbergia ..."
4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... forms one of the brittle ruby-coloured substances called kino, this particular
variety being termed butea kino or gum butea. Sometimes, however, it goes ..."
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