NOUN | plant | pudding pipe tree, golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula | deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally |
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Meaning | deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia. | |
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Synonyms | golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula | |
Broader | cassia | Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods |
Spanish | canafistula | |
Catalan | canafistula |
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