genus Cinnamomum

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genus Cinnamomum - Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs Cinnamomum magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, laurel family - a family of Lauraceae camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora - large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, cinnamon - tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia, cassia - Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon Cinnamomum loureirii, Saigon cinnamon - tropical southeast Asian tree with aromatic bark; yields a bark used medicinally