Cassia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CASSIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a relative of the cinnamon tree
• a tree, shrub, or herbaceous plant of the pea family, native to warm climates. Cassias yield a variety of products, including fodder, timber, and medicinal drugs (such as senna), and many are cultivated as ornamentals.
• the aromatic bark of an East Asian tree, yielding an inferior kind of cinnamon which is sometimes used to adulterate true cinnamon.
• tropical plant whose pods yield a mild laxative
• 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.
• 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.
• any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
• some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista
• Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a variety of cinnamon

Words related to CASSIA

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Words that contain CASSIA

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How to use CASSIA in a sentence

• Presently, Cassia, the fast Morgan mare, came up to the front-door, with the wheels of the new, light chaise flashing behind her in the moonlight.
• The cassia is an aromatic plant, but it has no mystical or symbolic character.
• We proceeded as far as the Via Cassia on the old Flaminian Way.
• No pains is bestowed on the cultivation of the cassia.
• He further discovered that oil of cassia had a different power of refraction from water, and the white of an egg still a different power.
• Her supercargo in two months has her loaded with tea, some china ware, a great deal of cassia or false cinnamon, and a few other articles.
• The young twigs of the true cinnamon tree are not downy, like those of the cassia bark.
• The sale and consumption is nearly stationary, and cinnamon is only in demand for those finer purposes for which cassia, its competitor, cannot be used.
• The famous cassia of China is incomparably superior in perfume and flavor to any spice of its class.
• A small quantity of cassia is brought from Mauritius and Brazil, and a large amount from the Philippine Islands.
• Oil of cinnamon and oil of cassia, according to Mulder, have the same composition.
• The production of cinnamon, clove, and cassia oils, have already been noticed in speaking of those spices.
• Living nature hung framed in wide high windows through which drifted in the distant boom of surf on the rocks, and salt breezes perfumed with cassia.

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