cinnamon
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- noun
- /ˈsɪnəˌmən/
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- And my mom, she'd be making me baked apples, and the whole house would smell like cinnamon and brown sugar.
- coffee with cinnamon
I sprinkle a little bit more cinnamon, just a bit.
- I sprinkle a little bit more cinnamon, just a bit.
- This has red apples, freshly ground cinnamon, and deep green pine.
- So now's the time for my cinnamon spice mixture.
- Do you like apple cinnamon or pumpkin spice?
- I'm fine and I don't do apple cinnamon so stop asking, OK?
- So today I'm making an apple cinnamon chocolate protein shake.
- Lion's mane for alertness, turmeric for soreness, cinnamon for antioxidants and more.
- Garlic, cinnamon, ginger, green tea, you name it.
- forget that it tastes like cinnamon buns on my mouth
Examples
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"Going to fix breakfast?" "This is breakfast," she said, putting a saucer of cinnamon toast on the table.
Fiction book (1991) -
Ooh, it's got like a cinnamon scent to it.
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I brought you a cinnamon heart cake.
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You put cinnamon in here?
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A little bit of cinnamon.
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And then we make a cinnamon butter, Right?
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Oh, I smell cinnamon rolls too.
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Grab some cinnamon sticks from the freezer, could you?
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I turn off the buzzer and pull a cinnamon cake from the oven.
Fiction book (1992) -
I sprinkled cinnamon on my toast to enhance its flavor.
Synonyms
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Dried tree bark with a warm, sweet smell used as a cooking spice
A dried rolled piece of cinnamon bark used to add warm spice to food
A Southeast Asian tree with strong, sweet bark used as a spice and in traditional medicine
A spice made from the bark of the cassia tree with a strong, warm flavor
Bark from a tree used as a spice that smells like cinnamon and tastes stronger
Compounds
A tropical tree with thin, fragrant brown bark that people use as a spice in baking
- Specialized
A tropical tree from Sri Lanka with thin, fragrant bark used as true cinnamon
A large North American plant with hairy cinnamon-colored fronds that appear in spring
- Specialized
A climbing plant from China that has glossy heart-shaped leaves that smell of cinnamon and edible tubers
A Southeast Asian tree with strong, sweet bark used as a spice and in traditional medicine
A strong smelling inner bark from a small Caribbean tree used as a spice and medicine
- Specialized
A large evergreen shrub or small tree with white fragrant bark and small purple to red flowers
How Aromatic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cinnamon comes from an old Middle Eastern word qinnamon meaning 'sweet bark'. Think of scraping the bark that 'smells sweet' to add taste to food — that's why cinnamon means the spice used to flavor drinks and dishes.