GOLDEN SHOWER TREE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

canafistola; canafistula; Cassia fistula; drumstick tree; golden shower tree; pudding pipe tree; purging cassia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("golden shower tree" is a kind of...):

cassia (any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods)

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