资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pudding \Pud"ding\, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L.
   botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan.
   podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten,
   also E. pod, pout, v.]
   1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard
      consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour
      or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

            And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.

   2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency
      of, pudding.

   3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,
      etc.; a sausage. --Shak.

   4. Any food or victuals.

            Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
                                                  --Prior.

   5. (Naut.) Same as {Puddening}.

   {Pudding grass} (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ({Mentha
      Pulegium}), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast
      meat. --Dr. Prior.

   {Pudding pie}, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor
      (1630).

   {Pudding pipe} (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the
      leguminous tree {Cassia Fistula}. The seeds are separately
      imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See {Cassia}.

   {Pudding sleeve}, a full sleeve like that of the English
      clerical gown. --Swift.

   {Pudding stone}. (Min.) See {Conglomerate}, n., 2.

   {Pudding time}.
      (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish
          first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson.
      (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]

                Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding
                time came to his aid.             --Hudibras.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Cassia fistula
     n : 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 [syn: {golden shower tree}, {drumstick
         tree}, {purging cassia}, {pudding pipe tree}, {canafistola},
          {canafistula}]