pudding pipe tree
- noun
- Australian
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árbol canafístola
- Traditional healers sometimes use the pulp from the pudding pipe tree pods in herbal remedies.
Examples
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Drooping clusters of yellow flowers make the pudding pipe tree stand out during the flowering season.
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The pudding pipe tree is often cultivated for its medicinal properties in southern India.
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The pudding pipe tree is known for its beautiful flowers.
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In Australia, the pudding pipe trees bloom during the summer.
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The pudding pipe tree is often cultivated for its medicinal properties in southern India.
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Drooping clusters of yellow flowers make the pudding pipe tree stand out during the flowering season.
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Traditional healers sometimes use the pulp from the pudding pipe tree pods in herbal remedies.
Synonyms
A tropical tree with hanging clusters of scented yellow flowers and pods with pulp used in medicine
A tropical tree with long hanging clusters of bright yellow flowers
A tropical tree with bright yellow flowers and long pods that people use for medicine
A tropical tree with fragrant yellow hanging flowers and seed pods used in traditional medicine
A tropical tree with yellow flowers and pods used as a laxative
Surface Forms
Morphology
While the final constituent 'tree' makes it clear this is a kind of tree and 'pipe' may suggest tubular parts, the role of 'pudding' is not transparently connected to the botanical features described and the detailed meaning (scented flowers, pods used medicinally) cannot be derived from the parts. Plant names like this are partially compositional (you can tell it labels a tree) but largely lexicalized and unpredictable in their specific sense, so a B1 learner would only get a vague idea rather than the full meaning.
Etymology
Pudding pipe tree may get its name from the long, pipe-like pods that hold a soft, sweet pulp like pudding. One popular story says people used this pulp as food or 'medicine', so the name came to mean the tree with these special pods.
