drumstick tree

noun

1

: an East Indian tree (Cassia fistula) having pods whose pulp is used medicinally

called also pudding-pipe tree, purging cassia

see cassia fistula

2

: horseradish tree sense 1

Word History

Etymology

so called from the shape of the pods

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