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Noun: cinnamon  si-nu-mun
  1. Aromatic bark used as a spice
    - cinnamon bark
     
  2. Tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon
    - Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum
     
  3. Spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground

Derived forms: cinnamons

Type of: bark, laurel, spice

Part of: Cinnamomum, genus Cinnamomum

Encyclopedia: Cinnamon