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    GENUS CINNAMOMUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubsplay

    Synonyms:

    Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Cinnamomum" is a member of...):

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

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