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CASSIA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cassia; cassia-bark tree; Cinnamomum cassia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Cassia; genus Cassia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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:

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)

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