cassia

Other forms of cassia

plural

cassias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cassia

What does cassia mean?

cassia means "any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cassia?

cassia has 3 syllables: cas-si-a. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ˈkæʃiə/.

What is another word for cassia?

Close synonyms include genus Cassia, cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cassia a common word?

cassia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.