| 单词 | purging fistula |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurging fistula 1. The golden shower or pudding pipe tree, Cassia fistula, which has long tubular pods; (occasionally also) a pod of this tree. In later use more fully purging fistula. Now rare.Now chiefly in lists of alternative names for the tree. 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 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Song of Sol. iv. 14 A closed gardyn..þyn owt sendingis..narde & safrun fystula [L. fistula] & canel. 1549 W. Baldwin Canticles of Salomon iv. sig. F.iiiv The fruites that growe in thee, are lyke a Paradise of Pomegranades, with fruite trees, Camphor, Nardus, and Saffron, Fistula, and Synamom, with al trees of Libanus. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 14 High and loftie trees, as the..Fistula, Calibash, Cherry. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 53 This is the purgative fruit or pods of the Cassia Fistula, black or purging Fistula. 1952 Indian Forester 78 119 (table) Purging fistula fruits (Cassia fistula Linn.). 1995 E. Foley Dominican Republic 60 If a woman and her husband are dark in color, the pregnant woman is encouraged to drink the fistula of the Cassia plant dissolved in boiled milk, which purifies the fetus so that the child will be born ‘almost white’. < as lemmas |
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