senna alexandrina

Questions about senna alexandrina

What does senna alexandrina mean?

senna alexandrina means "erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia".

What is another word for senna alexandrina?

Close synonyms include Alexandria senna, Alexandrian senna, true senna, tinnevelly senna, Indian senna. 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 senna alexandrina a common word?

senna alexandrina 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.