purging cassia

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   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 treepudding pipe treecanafistolacanafistulaCassia fistula

   Broadercassia

Questions about purging cassia

What does purging cassia mean?

purging cassia 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 purging cassia?

Close synonyms include golden shower tree, drumstick tree, pudding pipe tree, canafistola, canafistula. 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 purging cassia a common word?

purging cassia 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.