cassia

1. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods (synset 112512331)
   is a type of: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
   subtypes:

   • 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
   belongs to: cassia, genus cassia - some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
2. Some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista (synset 112512131)
   is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
   member holonym: cassia - any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
   belongs to: caesalpinioideae, subfamily caesalpinioideae - alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae
   same as: genus cassia
3. Chinese tree with aromatic bark;
   Yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon (synset 111725640)
   is a type of: laurel - any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
   belongs to: cinnamomum, genus cinnamomum - Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs
   has: cassia bark, chinese cinnamon - aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree; less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark
   same as: cassia-bark tree, cinnamomum cassia

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