CASSIA FISTULA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Cassia fistula mean? • CASSIA FISTULA (noun)
The noun CASSIA FISTULA has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CASSIA FISTULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CASSIA FISTULA (noun)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
canafistola; canafistula; Cassia fistula; drumstick tree; golden shower tree; pudding pipe tree; purging cassia
Hypernyms ("Cassia fistula" is a kind of...):
cassia (any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods)
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