cassia

cassia has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.
• n.. The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.
• n.. Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
• n.. some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
• n.. any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods