CINNAMON VINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinnamon vine mean? 

• CINNAMON VINE (noun)
  The noun CINNAMON VINE has 1 sense:

1. hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers

  Familiarity information: CINNAMON VINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINNAMON VINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chinese yam; cinnamon vine; Dioscorea batata

Hypernyms ("cinnamon vine" is a kind of...):

yam; yam plant (any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots)