CASSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cassia mean? 

• CASSIA (noun)
  The noun CASSIA has 3 senses:

1. any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods

2. some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista

3. Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon

  Familiarity information: CASSIA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cassia" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cassia"):

canafistola; canafistula; Cassia fistula; 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)

Holonyms ("cassia" is a member of...):

Cassia; genus Cassia (some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cassia; genus Cassia

Hypernyms ("Cassia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Cassia"):

cassia (any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods)

Holonyms ("Cassia" is a member of...):

Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cassia; cassia-bark tree; Cinnamomum cassia

Hypernyms ("cassia" is a kind of...):

laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

Meronyms (parts of "cassia"):

cassia bark; Chinese cinnamon (aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree; less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark)

Holonyms ("cassia" is a member of...):

Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum (Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs)

 Context examples 

Cassia oil is used primarily as a flavoring.

(Chinese Cinnamon Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The essential oil of Cinnamomum cassia.

(Chinese Cinnamon Leaf Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The essential oil extracted from the leaves of Cinnamomum cassia.

(Chinese Cinnamon Oil, NCI Thesaurus)