cinnamomum
Noun
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Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs (synset 111724870)
is a type of: magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiospermsmember holonym:
- camphor tree, cinnamomum camphora - large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- ceylon cinnamon, ceylon cinnamon tree, cinnamomum zeylanicum, cinnamon - tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon
- cassia, cassia-bark tree, cinnamomum cassia - Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
- cinnamomum loureirii, saigon cinnamon - tropical southeast Asian tree with aromatic bark; yields a bark used medicinally
same as: genus cinnamomum
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