tinnevelly senna

Questions about tinnevelly senna

What does tinnevelly senna mean?

tinnevelly senna 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 tinnevelly senna?

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

tinnevelly senna 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.