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Definition of Ceylon cinnamon tree

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceylon Cinnamon Tree

Literary usage of Ceylon cinnamon tree

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

1. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"295, the true or Ceylon Cinnamon-tree, distinguished by thick coriaceous leaves, pale beneath, with 3 main nerves from the base, large terminal ..."

2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"Indian cassia is derived in part, at least, from several species of India, which are by many botanists considered but varieties of the Ceylon cinnamon tree. ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1908)
"The oil of cinnamon should be that obtained from the root and bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree, as the oil obtained from the leaves is very irritating and ..."

4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... the Ceylon Cinnamon-Tree. Its leaves are of an oblong figure, generally more or less heart-shaped at the base ; of a thick leathery texture, ..."

5. Spices and how to Know Them by Walter M. Gibbs (1909)
"When the Ceylon cinnamon tree becomes too old to produce good growth it is cut down and the bark removed from the larger branches and the trunk, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... the leaves of the Ceylon cinnamon tree (Stenhouse, Annalen, 95, 103 ; Schimmel & Co., Chem. Zentr. 1902, ii. ..."

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