cassia

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: cassia

1	n	any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
2	n	Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: cassia

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; Cassia fistula, canafistola, canafistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia
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; Cassia grandis, horse cassia, pink shower, pink shower tree
tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or rose-colored flowers; used as an ornamental; Cassia javonica, rainbow shower
deciduous ornamental hybrid of southeastern Asia and Hawaii having racemes of flowers ranging in color from cream-colored to orange and red; Cassia marginata, Cassia roxburghii, horse cassia
East Indian tree having long pods containing a black cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine

Type of:: tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

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