purging cassia
noun
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.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and theologian.
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