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PUDDING PIPE TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pudding pipe tree mean?
• PUDDING PIPE TREE (noun)
The noun PUDDING PIPE TREE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: PUDDING PIPE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
canafistola; canafistula; Cassia fistula; drumstick tree; golden shower tree; pudding pipe tree; purging cassia
Hypernyms ("pudding pipe tree" is a kind of...):
cassia (any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods)
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