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DRUMSTICK TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drumstick tree mean? 

DRUMSTICK TREE (noun)
  The noun DRUMSTICK TREE has 1 sense:

1. deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australiaplay

  Familiarity information: DRUMSTICK TREE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRUMSTICK TREE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

canafistola; canafistula; Cassia fistula; drumstick tree; golden shower tree; pudding pipe tree; purging cassia

Hypernyms ("drumstick tree" is a kind of...):

cassia (any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods)


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