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CINNAMOMUM

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Meaning:

Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs

Synonyms:

Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cinnamomum" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cinnamomum"):

camphor tree; Cinnamomum camphora (large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor)

Ceylon cinnamon; Ceylon cinnamon tree; Cinnamomum zeylanicum; cinnamon (tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon)

cassia; cassia-bark tree; Cinnamomum cassia (Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon)

Cinnamomum loureirii; Saigon cinnamon (tropical southeast Asian tree with aromatic bark; yields a bark used medicinally)

Holonyms ("Cinnamomum" is a member of...):

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)

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