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
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 Hebrew
(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
Cinnamomum aromaticum, family Lauraceae 拉丁名Cinnamomum aromaticum,樟科
语源
Old English (in sense 2), from Latin, probably denoting the wild cinnamon, via Greek from Hebrew qěșī‘āh