Definition of "keena" []

• An East Indian tree, Calophyllum tomentosum. Its timber supplies the valuable poon spars of western India, and its seeds yield keena-oil. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When any relation of the corpses would come, as soon, you see, as they'd get inside the door, whether man or woman, they'd raise the shout of a keena, and all the people about the dead would begin along with them, stooping over them and clapping their hands as before."
• ""Miki taki meka keena ko-o-ola ka" - the harsh consonants rattling the speakers on my Newport station wagon."
• "Thirty years ago, driving across the hill country in the South, every 50 miles I'd pick up a new Pentecostal radio station with the preacher screaming in tongues in a torrent of ecstatic drivel - "Miki taki meka keena ko-o-ola ka" - the harsh consonants rattling the speakers on my Newport station wagon."