WILD CINNAMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild cinnamon mean? 

• WILD CINNAMON (noun)
  The noun WILD CINNAMON has 2 senses:

1. large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes

2. West Indian tree; source of bay rum

  Familiarity information: WILD CINNAMON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD CINNAMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Canella-alba; Canella winterana; white cinnamon tree; wild cinnamon

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "wild cinnamon"):

canella; canella bark; white cinnamon (highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic)

Holonyms ("wild cinnamon" is a member of...):

genus Canella (one species)

Sense 2

Meaning:

West Indian tree; source of bay rum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bay-rum tree; bayberry; Jamaica bayberry; Pimenta acris; wild cinnamon

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("wild cinnamon" is a member of...):

genus Pimenta; Pimenta (allspice tree)