CEYLON CINNAMON TREE

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Meaning:

Tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Ceylon cinnamon tree" is a kind of...):

laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

Meronyms (parts of "Ceylon cinnamon tree"):

cinnamon (spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground)

cinnamon; cinnamon bark (aromatic bark used as a spice)

Holonyms ("Ceylon cinnamon tree" is a member of...):

Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum (Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs)