cinnamon vine

1. 1.

   hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers

   SynonymsChinese yamDioscorea batata

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Questions about cinnamon vine

What does cinnamon vine mean?

cinnamon vine means "hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers".

What is another word for cinnamon vine?

Close synonyms include Chinese yam, Dioscorea batata. 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 cinnamon vine a common word?

cinnamon vine 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.