canafistula

1. 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

   Synonymsgolden shower treedrumstick treepurging cassiapudding pipe treecanafistolaCassia fistula

   Broadercassia

Other forms of canafistula

plural

canafistulas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about canafistula

What does canafistula mean?

canafistula means "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".

How many syllables are in canafistula?

canafistula has 5 syllables: ca-na-fi-stu-la. The stress falls on "fi".

What is another word for canafistula?

Close synonyms include golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree, canafistola. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canafistula a common word?

canafistula is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.