noun. Any of various chiefly tropical or subtropical trees, shrubs, or herbs of the genus Cassia in the pea family, having pinnately compound leaves, usually yellow flowers, and long, flat or cylindrical pods.

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noun. A tropical evergreen tree (Cinnamomum aromaticum syn. C. cassia) of East and Southeast Asia, having aromatic inner bark.

noun. The bark of this tree, often ground and used as a spice. It is the chief source of cinnamon in the United States.

noun. See Cassia.

noun. A very large genus of leguminous herbs, shrubs, and trees, mostly of tropical or warm regions.

noun. [lowercase] The cinnamon cassia, wild cassia, or cassia-bark. See cassia-lignea.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often used to adulterate true cinnamon.

noun. the dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).

noun. oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds; -- called also oil of cinnamon.

noun. Any of several tropical leguminous plants, of the genus Cassia, used medicinally as senna.

noun. A spice (similar to cinnamon) made from the bark of the Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum aromaticum.

noun. Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon

noun. some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista

noun. any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods

"The other is the Southeast Asian or Chinese cinnamon, often called cassia, which is typically thick and hard, forming a double spiral, darker in color and much stronger in flavor, bitter and somewhat harsh and burning, as in the American “red-hot” candy."

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