Lexic.us

Definition of Horse cassia

1. Noun. East Indian tree having long pods containing a black cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine.

2. Noun. Tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or rose-colored flowers; used as an ornamental.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horse Cassia

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Literary usage of Horse cassia

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

1. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"'This is called horse cassia, because it is generally given to horses, but seldom used by rthe human species, on account of its griping ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"The horse cassia, or as it might ... These are the horse cassia of Jamaica, which has been hitherto referred to ..."

3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The Cassia Javanica, or horse cassia, is a native of Java and the Moluccas, with legumes above two feet in length, containing a black cathartic pulp, ..."

4. The timber trees, timber and fancy woods, as also, the forests of India and by Edward Balfour (1870)
"horse cassia. ENG. A native of Java and the Moluccas, with legumes above two feet in length, containing a black cathartic pulp used in India, ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1906)
"The drug is commonly known as horse cassia, and although in its essential characters it closely resembles the ordinary cassia, yet it possesses a powerful ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1906)
"The drug is commonly known as horse cassia, and although in its essential characters it closely resembles the ordinary cassia, yet it possesses a powerful ..."

7. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... Horse-Cassia, has leaves with 12-15 pairs of ovate obtuse glabrous leaflets ; glandless petioles ; axillary racemes ; nearly cylindrical, very long, ..."

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