What is kino used for?
Uses: Kino is used for ornamental and medicinal purposes on many Pacific islands. In the Marshall Islands, kino is used in the making of both ut (head garlands) and marmar (leis or flowered necklaces). Definition of ‘kino’ a dark-red or reddish-brown gum obtained from certain leguminous tropical plants (esp. Pterocarpus marsupium): used in varnishes, as an astringent in medicine, etc.
What is the full form of kino?
Origin of kino First recorded in 1925–30; from German, shortened form of Kinematograph, from French cinématographe “movie camera/projector”; cinematograph. A Kino, named by Eli Wallace after Russian word kino (кино) meaning cinema, is a sleek, softball-sized, self-levitating orb designed and built in mass quantities by the Ancients for use on the starship Destiny.