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Noun: cassia  ka-shu
  1. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
     
  2. Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
    - cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia
Noun: Cassia
  1. Some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
    - genus Cassia

Derived forms: cassias

Type of: laurel, rosid dicot genus, tree

Part of: Caesalpinioideae, Cinnamomum, genus Cinnamomum, subfamily Caesalpinioideae

Encyclopedia: Cassia, Minas Gerais