fistula : Idioms & Phrases

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cassia fistula

  • noun deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia
    drumstick tree; purging cassia; canafistula; canafistola; pudding pipe tree; golden shower tree.
WordNet

Incomplete fistula

  • (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.
Webster 1913