purging cassia

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purging cassia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  purging cassia
      n 1: 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]