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noun
An economically useful tree, Moringa oleifera, probably native to India, but grown throughout the tropics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: golden shower tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cassia
History
drumstick + tree. The immature pods are long and cylindrical like drumsticks
Across languages
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