HyperDic: purging_cassia

English > 1 sense of the expression purging cassia:
NOUNplantpurging cassia, golden shower tree, drumstick tree, pudding pipe tree, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistuladeciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally
English > purging cassia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningdeciduous 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.
Synonymsgolden shower tree, drumstick tree, pudding pipe tree, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula
BroadercassiaAny of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
Spanishcanafistula
Catalancanafistula

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