cassia

Meaning of cassia

noun

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.

Old English (in cassia (sense 2)), from Latin, probably denoting the wild cinnamon, via Greek from Hebrew qĕṣī‘āh .

Information about cassia

It is a name.
The plural form of cassia is: cassias.
Languages in which cassia is used:
(Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of cassia

cas-sia

It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
cassia is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

cassia synonyms

Meaning genus Cassia:

Anagrams of cassia

Words that rhyme with cassia

Anastassia, Anestassia, Bassia, Brassia, Camassia, Cassia, Circassia, Kassia, Nastassia, Natassia, Parnassia, Quassia, bassia, brassia, camassia, parnassia, quamassia, quassia, Kessia, Secessia, Tressia, Cyparissia, Malissia, aglossia, androglossia, ankyloglossia, ateloglossia, baryglossia, bradyglossia, cacoglossia, diglossia, hypoglossia, idioglossia, macroglossia, megaloglossia, melanoglossia, microglossia, ossia, pachyglossia, panglossia, paraglossia, platyglossia, schistoglossia, sympossia, trichoglossia, xenoglossia, Belorussia, Byelorussia, Prussia, Russia

Are you looking more rhymes for cassia? Try our rhymes search engine.