Also kutera, katira. [Hindī katīrā (name of the gum).] In Kuteera gum, a kind of gum obtained from an Indian shrub, Cochlospermum Gossypium (N. O. Bixineæ); also a gum obtained from several species of Sterculia.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 676. Gum kuteera. This gum, according to Dr. Roxburgh, is the produce of the sterculio urens, a tree which grows in Hindostan.
1886. Guide Museums Kew, No. 1. 15. Specimens of Kuteera Gum of the Indian bazaars furnished by Cochlospermum Gossypium, DC., used in the North Western Provinces as a substitute for Tragacanth.
