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SENNA

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Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("senna" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "senna"):

Cassia alata; ringworm bush; ringworm cassia; ringworm shrub; Senna alata (tropical shrub (especially of Americas) having yellow flowers and large leaves whose juice is used as a cure for ringworm and poisonous bites; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

avaram; Cassia auriculata; Senna auriculata; tanner's cassia (evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

Alexandria senna; Alexandrian senna; Cassia acutifolia; Cassia augustifolia; Indian senna; Senna alexandrina; tinnevelly senna; true senna (erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia)

Cassia occidentalis; coffee senna; mogdad coffee; Senna occidentalis; stinking weed; styptic weed (very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia)

Holonyms ("senna" is a member of...):

genus Senna (genus of shrubs and trees and herbs many of which are often classified as members of the genus Cassia)

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