cassia fistula

Questions about cassia fistula

What does cassia fistula mean?

cassia fistula 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".

What is another word for cassia fistula?

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 cassia fistula a common word?

cassia fistula 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cassia fistula come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.