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Definition of Canafistula
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Cassia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canafistula
Literary usage of Canafistula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639 by Clements Robert Markham, Garcilaso de la Vega, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Christóbel de Acuña (1859)
"the best dispensary of medicines ; for they collect the largest canafistula, or
fruit of the purging cassia, that has ever been found; the best sarsaparilla ..."
2. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... strath, vale, swale. dale between mountains, glade, haw bottom of л valley (A.)
rivulet, brook. — entit dos a,turas (top.) dingle. canafistula (b. ..."
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