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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. It. & Sp.

sena

, Pg.

sene

, F.

séné

; all fr. Ar.

sanā

(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

–

Wild senna

(Bot.)

the

Cassia Marilandica

, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

Noun.

The leaf of the cassia senna, a native of the east, used as a cathartic.