cinnamon bark
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- noun
- /ˈsɪnəmən bɑrk/
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corteza de canela
- Once she asked for a bowl of soy milk with sugar and a pinch of kuei-pi, cinnamon bark.
Examples
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She sprinkled a bit of cinnamon bark powder into her cake recipe for extra flavor.
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He bought a pouch of cinnamon bark for the nuns' tea.
Fiction book (2001) -
She can find, with little difficulty, a good quality cinnamon bark, and some months ago a missionary friend living in the plains in the South had sent her whole nutmegs.
Fiction book (1998) -
For a warm and aromatic drink, add cinnamon bark to your favorite herbal tea.
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The recipe calls for one stick of cinnamon bark to enhance the dish's aroma.
Synonyms
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A sweet-smelling brown spice made from the dried bark of a tree used to flavor food and drinks
A dried rolled piece of cinnamon bark used to add warm spice to food
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
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun-noun combination: 'cinnamon' already denotes the spice made from tree bark and 'bark' names the tree covering, so their composition yields the literal bark of cinnamon trees used as a spice. This meaning is directly derivable from the constituents and follows common compounding patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Cinnamon bark is the fragrant skin people peel from cinnamon trees, and when the thin inner bark dries it curls into the familiar sticks used in cooking. That's why cinnamon bark means the tree 'bark' used as a 'spice' to add a warm 'flavor' to food and drinks.