Definition of Senna auriculata

1. Noun. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia.

Exact synonyms: Avaram, Cassia Auriculata, Tanner's Cassia
Generic synonyms: Senna

Lexicographical Neighbors of Senna Auriculata

Senegal
Senegalese
Senegalese franc
Senegambia
Senegambian
Seneka snakeroot
Senga
Sengas
Sengstaken-Blakemore tube
Senhor
Senior-Loken syndrome
Senior Circuit
Senkaku Islands
Senna alata
Senna alexandrina
Senna auriculata
Senna marilandica
Senna obtusifolia
Senna occidentalis
Sennacherib
Sennetsu fever
Sennett
Senning operation
Senones
Senor
Senora
Senorita
Sensurround
Senussi
Senussian

Literary usage of Senna auriculata

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

1. The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce by Heber Drury (1873)
"... flowers 3-5 together, bright yellow. Fl. Oct.—Dec.— W. & A. Prod. i. 290.—Senna auriculata, Roxb. Flor. Ind. ii. 349. Common in the Peninsula. ..."

2. Materia medica of India and their therapeutics by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory, Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak, . (1903)
"Cassia Auriculata, senna auriculata. Auriculata.—In allusion to the shape of the seeds resembling the auricles of the heart. Habitat. ..."

3. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"—senna auriculata, Roxb. fl. Ind. Í. p. 349.—Pink. t. 314./.4. A very common and handsome shrub, the bark of which is much used by the natives all over ..."

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