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    PURGING CASSIA

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     I. (noun) 

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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 Australiaplay

    Synonyms:

    canafistola; canafistula; Cassia fistula; drumstick tree; golden shower tree; pudding pipe tree; purging cassia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("purging cassia" 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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