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noun

Senna n.

(Med.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (Cassia acutifolia, Cassia angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

(Bot.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.

Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder.

Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

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"Senna" Quotes from Famous Books

... rhubarb, pink root, white agaric, senna, of each one ounce and a half. Boil in sufficient water to yield three quarts of decoction. Now add to it ten drops of the oil of tansy and forty-five drops of the oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirit. ...

— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... morning, noon, and night. All the rest was task work; these were my delight, with the stories in the Bible, and with Shakespeare, when at last the mighty master came within our doors. The rest were as senna to me. These were like a well of pure water, and this is the first step I seem to have taken of my own free will toward the pulpit. * * * I took to these as I took to milk, and, without the least idea what ...

— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden

Words linked to "Senna" : bladder senna, Alexandrian senna, Senna obtusifolia, mogdad coffee, Senna occidentalis, shrub, Senna alexandrina, coffee senna, ringworm bush, Cassia acutifolia, Cassia auriculata, Cassia occidentalis, ringworm shrub, Cassia augustifolia, tinnevelly senna