GENUS CINNAMOMUM

 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cinnamomum mean? 

• GENUS CINNAMOMUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS CINNAMOMUM has 1 sense:

1. Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs

  Familiarity information: GENUS CINNAMOMUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CINNAMOMUM (noun)

Meaning:

Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum

Hypernyms ("genus Cinnamomum" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cinnamomum"):

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)

Holonyms ("genus Cinnamomum" is a member of...):

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)