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Noun: wild cinnamon
  1. Large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes
    - white cinnamon tree, Canella winterana, Canella-alba
     
  2. West Indian tree; source of bay rum
    - bayberry, bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris

Type of: bush, shrub, tree

Part of: genus Canella, genus Pimenta, Pimenta

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