cinnamomum cassia

1. 1.

   Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon

   Synonymscassiacassia-bark tree

   Broaderlaurel

   Part ofCinnamomum

   Partscassia bark

Questions about cinnamomum cassia

What does cinnamomum cassia mean?

cinnamomum cassia means "Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon".

What is another word for cinnamomum cassia?

Close synonyms include cassia, cassia-bark tree. 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 cinnamomum cassia a common word?

cinnamomum cassia 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.