Cassia fistula
- noun
- Specialized
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canafistula
- Traditional healers use the pulp from Cassia fistula pods to treat various ailments.
Examples
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The Cassia fistula is admired for its cascading yellow blossoms during the summer months.
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Gardeners often plant Cassia fistula to add vibrant color and fragrance to parks and streets.
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The Cassia fistula tree blooms beautifully in the spring.
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Many gardeners love the Cassia fistula for its vibrant yellow flowers.
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Gardeners often plant Cassia fistula to add vibrant color and fragrance to parks and streets.
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The Cassia fistula is admired for its cascading yellow blossoms during the summer months.
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Traditional healers use the pulp from Cassia fistula pods to treat various ailments.
Synonyms
A tropical tree with bright yellow flowers and long pods that people use for medicine
A tropical tree with long hanging clusters of bright yellow flowers
A tropical tree with hanging clusters of scented yellow flowers and pods with pulp used in medicine
A tropical tree with hanging yellow flowers and pods whose soft inside is used as medicine
A tropical tree with yellow flowers and pods used as a laxative
A tree from India with long seed pods whose dark pulp people use to treat horses
Surface Forms
Morphology
Cassia + fistula
This is a Latin binomial (genus + species) used as a scientific label for a particular tree; such taxonomic names function as proper nouns and their overall meaning (‘a specific Cassia tree with particular properties’) is not compositionally derived from the parts. The species epithet 'fistula' is not transparently meaningful here (and is even missing from the provided dictionary), so a B1 learner who knows 'Cassia' would not reliably infer the full referential meaning from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Cassia fistula is often called the 'golden shower tree' because its long, hanging yellow flowers look like a bright shower of gold. Its long seed pods and sweet pulp were used in traditional medicine, so today the name makes you think of a tropical tree with showy yellow blooms and pods used as medicine.
