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Definition of Genus cassia

1. Noun. Some genus Cassia species often classified as members of the genus Senna or genus Chamaecrista.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cassia

Literary usage of Genus cassia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"NOTE ON CASSIA MOSCHATA, II., R, K., 1863. (Read before the Linnean Society, June 18, 1863.) genus cassia. THE genus Cassia as constituted by ..."

2. The Pharmacist (1875)
"The genus Cassia being an extremely large one, I at once forwarded my specimen to Professor Oliver, who identified it as ..."

3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"in, seu orienta'lii seu officina'lit. The name of the plant which affords senna. It is yielded, however, by several species of the genus cassia. ..."

4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"THE genus Cassia of our Botanical Catalogues, is very extensive, containing from two to three hundred species. The greater part are handsome flowering stove ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"Linnaeus, in 1753, decided that it might be viewed as a species of the genus Cassia, and, dropping the second term, Pavonis, ..."

6. Pharmacographia by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1879)
"... but by most it is retained in the genus Cassia. History—The name Casia or Cassia was originally applied exclusively to a bark related to cinnamon which, ..."

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