| 单词 | purging cassia |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurging cassia purging cassia n. the golden shower or pudding-pipe tree, Cassia fistula (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)); a drug made from the pulp surrounding the seeds of this plant, used as a laxative. ΚΠ 1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. xxxi. sect. iii. viii. 1746 Cassia fistula Alexandrina... The ordinary purging Cassia or pudding-pipe-tree. 1797 R. Pearson Pract. Synopsis Materia Alimentaria & Materia Medica I. 188 Cassia. Purging Cassia. The pulp contained in the pods of this tree, operates gently by stool, when taken to the quantity of half an ounce or six drams. 1889 G. S. Boulger Uses of Plants iv. 91 C[assia] Fistula, L., now largely grown in the West Indies, is the mild laxative Purging Cassia. 1963 E. H. Schafer Golden Peaches of Samarkand xi. 189 ‘Indian laburnum’, or ‘golden shower’, or more prosaically ‘purging cassia’,..which has beautiful flowers and bright red seeds in long pods. < as lemmas |
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