'Cassia Fistula' definitions:

Definition of 'Cassia fistula'

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noun
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 [syn: golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula]

Definition of 'Cassia Fistula'

From: GCIDE
  • Pudding \Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v.]
  • 1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Any food or victuals. [1913 Webster]
  • Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening. [1913 Webster]
  • Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. --Dr. Prior.
  • Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor (1630).
  • Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.
  • Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. --Swift.
  • Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.
  • Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] Pudding fish

Definition of 'Cassia fistula'

From: GCIDE
  • canafistola \canafistola\, canafistula \canafistula\n. a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree (Cassia fistula) having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; it grows in tropical Asia, Central and South America, and Australia.
  • Syn: golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree, canafistola. [WordNet 1.5]

Definition of 'Cassia fistula'

From: GCIDE
  • Cassia \Cas"sia\ (k[a^]sh"[.a]), n. [L. cassia and casia, Gr. kassi`a and kasi`a; of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. qets[imac][=a]h, fr. q[=a]tsa' to cut off, to peel off.]
  • 1. (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The medicinal "cassia" (Cassia pulp) is the laxative pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree (Cassia fistula or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but naturalized in various tropical countries. [1913 Webster]
  • Cassia bark, the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often used to adulterate true cinnamon.
  • Cassia buds, the dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).
  • Cassia oil, oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds; -- called also oil of cinnamon. [1913 Webster]