/ˈkæsɪə/
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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, and many are cultivated as ornamentals.山扁豆, 决明。
ORIGIN: modern Latin.
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Genus Cassia, family Leguminosae: many species, including C. fistula, which provides much of the commercially produced senna.决明属, 豆科：多种, 包括提供了许多商业生产的轻泻剂的腊肠树。
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（亦作cassia bark）[mass noun] the aromatic bark of an East Asian tree, yielding an inferior kind of cinnamon which is sometimes used to adulterate true cinnamon桂皮, 肉桂。
ORIGIN: from Latin, probably denoting the wild cinnamon, via Greek from Hebrew qěṣī’āh.