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Definition of Cassia tora
1. Noun. Cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia.
Group relationships: Genus Senna
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Literary usage of Cassia tora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Materia medica of the Hindus: Compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works by Udoy Chand Dutt (1877)
"... and afterwards rubbed into a paste with cow's urine for application to keloid
tumours.2 Equal parts of the seeds of cassia tora and Pongamia glabra ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Torr. Taller, stems stouter, densely pubescent; flowers larger. Kentucky to
Alabama and Mississippi. 3. cassia tora L. Low Senna. (Fig. 2036. ..."
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