| legume | the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) |
cassia cassia-bark tree
Cinnamomum cassia | Chinese tree with aromatic bark, yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon |
cassia bark
Chinese cinnamon | aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree, less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark |
Leguminosae
family Leguminosae
Fabaceae
family Fabaceae
legume family
pea family | a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods, divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae, Papilionaceae |
legume
leguminous plant | an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae |
| legume | the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case |
genus Cassia
Cassia | some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista |
| cassia | any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods |
golden shower tree
drumstick tree
purging cassia
pudding pipe tree
canafistola
canafistula
Cassia fistula | deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally, tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia |
pink shower
pink shower tree
horse cassia Cassia grandis | tropical American semi-evergreen tree having erect racemes of pink or roseolored flowers, used as an ornamental |
rainbow shower
Cassia javonica | deciduous ornamental hybrid of southeastern Asia and Hawaii having racemes of flowers ranging in color from creamolored to orange and red |
horse cassia Cassia roxburghii
Cassia marginata | East Indian tree having long pods containing a black cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine |
partridge pea
sensitive pea
wild sensitive plant
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Cassia fasciculata | tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
ringworm bush
ringworm shrub
ringworm cassia
Senna alata
Cassia alata | tropical shrub (especially of Americas) having yellow flowers and large leaves whose juice is used as a cure for ringworm and poisonous bites, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
avaram
tanner's cassia
Senna auriculata
Cassia auriculata | evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
Alexandria senna
Alexandrian senna
true senna
tinnevelly senna
Indian senna
Senna alexandrina
Cassia acutifolia
Cassia augustifolia | erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers, the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
wild senna
Senna marilandica
Cassia marilandica | North American perennial herb, leaves are used medicinally, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
sicklepod Senna obtusifolia
Cassia tora | cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods, a weed, sometimes placed in genus Cassia |
coffee senna
mogdad coffee
styptic weed
stinking weed
Senna occidentalis
Cassia occidentalis | very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee, sometimes classified in genus Cassia |