cassia

Noun

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

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cassia-bark tree , Cinnamomum cassia , genus Cassia , Cassia