sena
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of sena
Hindi
Example Sentences
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Cathartics of the mild kind, as sena, jalap, neutral salts, manna.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
It was a Saturday evening when Bobby finally received Abel's consent for him to go to the sena seal hunting.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
In Favre’s Malay-French Dictionary daun sena-maki is translated feuilles de séné, no notice being taken of the last word; but Shakespear’s Hindustani Dictionary has sena makk-i, “senna of Mecca.”
From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir
I was never hunting at the sena but twice, though, and I've never forgotten my first experience.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
He has been to the sena with you twice, and he knows how.
From Bobby of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
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