English > cassia: 3 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods. |
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| Member of | genus Cassia, Cassia | Some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista |
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| Narrower | golden shower tree, drumstick tree, purging cassia, pudding pipe tree, canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula | deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally |
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| horse cassia, Cassia roxburghii, Cassia marginata | East Indian tree having long pods containing a black cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine |
| pink shower, pink shower tree, horse cassia, Cassia grandis | Tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or rose-colored flowers |
| rainbow shower, Cassia javonica | deciduous ornamental hybrid of southeastern Asia and Hawaii having racemes of flowers ranging in color from cream-colored to orange and red |
| Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
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| Spanish | cañafístola, cañafístula |
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| Catalan | canyafístula, càssia |
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