cassia
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- n any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
- n some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
- n Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
- And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully.
- Except for a temporary lack of shipping, most such easily gathered Indies commodities as pepper, nutmeg, cassia, cinnamon and cloves should soon be moving in world trade again.
- Across town, amid the mangoes, palms and cassia trees of the European quarter, far fewer white citizens were similarly lined up.