kino

Meaning

Noun

• A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
• Especially good or sophisticated cinema.
• Physical contact with another person, touch.

Origin

• 18th century. Perhaps borrowed from Mandingo cano, or from a language of the East Indies.
• From Russian кино.
• Coined by Ross Jeffries, from kinesthesia.