An alternative scientific family name for legume plants, including those that produce cassia spice.
Scientific Latin formed from cassia plus the suffix -aceae, the standard botanical naming convention for plant families.
Scientists use these super-formal Latin names so that a botanist in Japan and one in Brazil are always talking about the exact same plant, even if it has 50 different local names!
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