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Definition of Ceylon cinnamon

1. Noun. Tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon.

Medical Definition of Ceylon cinnamon

1. Cinnamomum zeylanicum, an evergreen tree of the laurel family (lauraceae), and its dried inner bark used as a spice or medicinally. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceylon Cinnamon

Literary usage of Ceylon cinnamon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical by Horatio John Suckling (1876)
"Dr. Vincent, in his " Commerce of the Ancients," says " he could find no allusion to Ceylon cinnamon among the authors of antiquity, unless Dionysius was ..."

2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1818)
"... and the universal prepossession in favour of the Ceylon cinnamon, are peculiar and powerful ail vantages, which, if judiciously improved, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"Although as the produce of Ceylon, cinnamon did not come prominently into the market till the settlement of the Portuguese in the island, it is the opinion ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1818)
"Inferring that the third sort of Ceylon cinnamon is of as good a quality, and will fetch as high a price as the Clii.. nese cinnamon, the purchasers of the ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1901)
"Oil of Ceylon cinnamon undoubtedly possesses the finest aroma, ... In fact, we believe oil of cassia is a close second to oil of Ceylon cinnamon, ..."

6. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1817)
"His Majesty-s Ministers, deeming it prudent to permit the Company to continue to enjoy the monopoly of the Ceylon cinnamon trade, entered into an agreement ..."

7. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1817)
"His Majesty's Ministers, deeming it prudent to permit the Company to continue to enjoy the monopoly of the Ceylon cinnamon trade, entered into an agreement ..."

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