n.
- an aromatic spice made from the dried and rolled bark of a SE Asian tree.
- the tree which yields cinnamon.
[Cinnamomum zeylanicum and related species.]
- a yellowish-brown colour.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. cinnamome (from Gk kinnamōmon), and L. cinnamon, both from a Semitic lang. and perh. based on Malay.
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