Definitions for sennas

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sennas sen·na

Spelling: [sen-uh]

IPA: /ˈsɛn ə/

Sennas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in sennas (aennss).

Definitions for sennas

noun

1. any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
2. any of various cathartic drugs consisting of the dried leaflets of certain of these plants, as one drug (Alexandrian senna) derived from C. acutifolia, or another (Tinnevelly senna) derived from C. angustifolia.
3. wild senna.

Origin of sennas

1535-45; New Latin Arabic sanā

Examples for sennas

If the senna is distasteful a smaller quantity may be used at first.

“Off with that old senna T-pot,” said Burr major scornfully.

Canoes having been procured, they reached senna on the 27th.

When at senna, in the Makololo country, a woman was seized by a crocodile.

It is aromatic, carminative, and stimulant; and more effectually covers the taste of senna than any other substance.

What a cramping, pain-giving abomination that senna tea was!

Calomel three grains every third day, with infusion of senna.

Jacob Bernstein on why the Academy snubbed Bill Cunningham New York, senna, and other crowd-pleasers.

It is said to have been composed chiefly of senna and fennel leaves.

For worms and fits snails also were used, with senna and rhubarb and prunes.