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Cinnamomum

noun

Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs

• Syn: ↑genus Cinnamomum

• Hypernyms: ↑magnoliid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lauraceae, ↑family Lauraceae, ↑laurel family

• Member Meronyms:

↑camphor tree, ↑Cinnamomum camphora, ↑cinnamon, ↑Ceylon cinnamon, ↑Ceylon cinnamon tree, ↑Cinnamomum zeylanicum, ↑cassia, ↑cassia-bark tree, ↑Cinnamomum cassia, ↑Saigon cinnamon, ↑Cinnamomum loureirii

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\\ˌsinəˈmōməm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, cinnamon (the tree and the bark)

: a large genus of Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs of the family Lauraceae having mostly opposite leaves with three to five prominent longitudinal veins and small flowers in panicles — see camphor tree, chinese cinnamon, cinnamon

Useful english dictionary. 2012.