ceylon cinnamon

Questions about ceylon cinnamon

What does ceylon cinnamon mean?

ceylon cinnamon means "tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon".

What is another word for ceylon cinnamon?

Close synonyms include cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum. 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 ceylon cinnamon a common word?

ceylon cinnamon 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.