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Senna

noun

Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally.

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"Senna" Quotes from Famous Books

... his onset; but as he came nearer, and I beheld his great gaunt form, his gleaming teeth, and his senna-coloured eyes flashing like fire, changed my design; a new thought came suddenly into my mind; ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... of the vengeance of Balder is more clearly given by the Dane, and with a comic force that recalls the Aristophanic fun of Loka-senna. It appears that the story had a sequel which only Saxo gives. Woden had the giantess Angrbode, who stole Freya, punished. Frey, whose mother-in-law she was, took up her quarrel, and accusing Woden of sorcery and dressing up like a woman to betray Wrind, got him banished. While in exile Wuldor ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... morning, in order to swim off for a boat, and was seized by a crocodile, the poor fellow held up his hand imploringly, but Musa and the rest allowed him to perish. On my denouncing his heartlessness, Musa-replied, "Well, no one tell him go in there." When at Senna a slave woman was seized by a crocodile: four Makololo rushed in unbidden, and rescued her, though they knew nothing about her: from long intercourse with both Johanna men and Makololo I take these incidents as typical of the two races. Those of mixed blood possess the vices of both races, ...

— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone

Words linked to "Senna" : avaram, ringworm shrub, styptic weed, ringworm bush, tanner's cassia, Cassia alata, Cassia auriculata, tinnevelly senna, stinking weed, ringworm cassia, Cassia acutifolia, Cassia occidentalis, bush, mogdad coffee, shrub, Cassia augustifolia