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Cassia

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Cassia has 3 senses

cassia(n = noun.plant) Array - any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods; Array

is a member of

cassia

genus cassia

has particulars: canafistola, canafistula, cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia, cassia grandis, horse cassia, pink shower, pink shower tree, cassia javonica, rainbow shower, cassia marginata, cassia roxburghii, horse cassia

is a kind of tree

cassia(n = noun.plant) genus cassia - some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista; Array

is a kind of rosid dicot genus

is a member of caesalpinioideae, subfamily caesalpinioideae

cassia(n = noun.plant) cassia-bark tree, cinnamomum cassia - Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon; Array

is a kind of laurel

is a member of cinnamomum, genus cinnamomum

has parts: cassia bark, chinese cinnamon

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Cassia, n. [L. cassia and casia, Gr. kassi`a and kasi`a; of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. qetsīāh, fr. qātsa' to cut off, to peel off.].

A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine. [1913 Webster]
The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached. [1913 Webster]
" The medicinal “cassia” (Cassia pulp) is the laxative pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree (Cassia fistula or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but naturalized in various tropical countries." [1913 Webster]

Cassia bark, the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often used to adulterate true cinnamon. -- Cassia buds, the dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..). -- Cassia oil, oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds; -- called also oil of cinnamon.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cassia, n.
1 any tree of the genus Cassia, bearing leaves from which senna is extracted.
2 the cinnamon-like bark of this tree used as a spice.

Etymology

L f. Gk kasia f. Heb. kes{icirc}'ah bark like cinnamon

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