Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Senna

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Senna


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(1):

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

(2):

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