Cinnamon

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cinnamon \Cin"na*mon\, n. [Heb. qinn[=a]m[=o]n; cf. Gr. ?, ?,
     cinnamomum, cinnamon. The Heb. word itself seems to have been
     borrowed from some other language; cf. Malay k[=a]j[=u]
     m[=a]nis sweet wood.]
     (a) The inner bark of the shoots of {Cinnamomum Zeylanicum},
         a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately


         pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial,
         carminative, and restorative spices.
     (b) Cassia.
         [1913 Webster]
  
     {Cinnamon stone} (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon
        or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry.
  
     {Oil of cinnamon}, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from
        cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of
        cinnamic aldehyde, {C6H5.C2H2.CHO}.
  
     {Wild cinnamon}. See {Canella}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cinnamon
       n 1: aromatic bark used as a spice [syn: {cinnamon bark}]
       2: tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark;
          source of the spice cinnamon [syn: {Ceylon cinnamon}, {Ceylon
          cinnamon tree}, {Cinnamomum zeylanicum}]
       3: spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon
          tree; used as rolled strips or ground

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Cinnamon
     Heb. kinamon, the Cinnamomum zeylanicum of botanists, a tree of
     the Laurel family, which grows only in India on the Malabar
     coast, in Ceylon, and China. There is no trace of it in Egypt,
     and it was unknown in Syria. The inner rind when dried and
     rolled into cylinders forms the cinnamon of commerce. The fruit
     and coarser pieces of bark when boiled yield a fragrant oil. It
     was one of the principal ingredients in the holy anointing oil
     (Ex. 30:23). It is mentioned elsewhere only in Prov. 7:17; Cant.
     4:14; Rev. 18:13. The mention of it indicates a very early and
     extensive commerce carried on between Palestine and the East.