| 单词 | pudding-pipe tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspudding-pipe tree pudding pipe n. (more fully pudding-pipe tree) the golden shower, Cassia fistula (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), which has long pipe-like seed pods; cf. purging cassia n. at purging adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > pudding-pipe tree fistulaa1382 cassia fistulaa1398 pudding-pipe tree1597 cassia-stick tree1756 golden shower1882 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1242 Cassia fistula..may also be Englished Pudding Pipe, bicause the cod or pipe is like a pudding. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 324 Pudding Pipe-tree, Cassia. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 233/1 C. fistula, called the Pudding Pipe Tree from its peculiar pods, is a very handsome tree. 1938 Charleroi (Pa.) Mail 25 July 5/2 ‘Cassia pulp’, used as a medicine, is obtained from the pods of Cassia Fistula, or pudding pipe tree, a native of Africa. 1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 132 C. fistula L. (pudding-pipe tree, purging cassia, Indian laburnum, golden shower, trop. As.). < as lemmas |
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