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wild cinnamon

noun

1. West Indian tree; source of bay rum

• Syn: ↑bayberry, ↑bay-rum tree, ↑Jamaica bayberry, ↑Pimenta acris

• Hypernyms: ↑tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Pimenta, ↑genus Pimenta

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

• Syn: ↑white cinnamon tree, ↑Canella winterana, ↑Canella-alba

• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush

• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Canella

• Part Meronyms: ↑canella, ↑canella bark, ↑white cinnamon

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noun

1. : a tree (Canella winterana) of Florida and the West Indies with white bark and small flowers in terminal cymes

2. or wild clove : bayberry 1a

Useful english dictionary. 2012.