Definition of Alexandrian senna

1. Noun. Erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alexandrian Senna

Alexander Wilson
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander of Tralles
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Liberator
Alexanders
Alexandra
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Yersin
Alexandria
Alexandria senna
Alexandrian
Alexandrian laurel
Alexandrian senna
Alexandrina
Alexandrine
Alexandros
Alexandroupoli
Alexia
Alexis
Alexis Carrel
Alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexius
Aleyrodes
Aleyrodidae
Alezzandrini's syndrome
Alfie

Literary usage of Alexandrian senna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1850)
"When compared with what is often sold as alexandrian senna, it certainly was superior in appearance, besides being a genuine senna. ..."

2. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"In English commerce three kinds of Senna are distinguished under the names of alexandrian senna, Bombay or East Indian Senna, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The leaflets form the alexandrian senna of commerce. Formerly this variety of ... Of late years alexandrian senna has been shipped of much better quality. ..."

4. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"alexandrian senna—This is furnished by Cassia acutifolia and is imported in large ... But alexandrian senna has of late been shipped of much better quality. ..."

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