canella-alba

1. 1.

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

   Synonymswild cinnamonwhite cinnamon treeCanella winterana

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Canella

   Partscanella

Questions about canella-alba

What does canella-alba mean?

canella-alba means "large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes".

How many syllables are in canella-alba?

canella-alba has 4 syllables: ca-nel-la-al-ba. The stress falls on "nel".

What is another word for canella-alba?

Close synonyms include wild cinnamon, white cinnamon tree, Canella winterana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canella-alba a common word?

canella-alba is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.