cinnamon

«cinnamon» in Mova's school dictionary: a sweet, warm-tasting brown spice made from the dried… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cinnamon, uncountable); adjective (cinnamon-coloured)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cinnamon is a sweet, warm-tasting brown spice made from the dried bark of a tree, used in cakes, buns and drinks. tree →

2) Cinnamon is a light reddish-brown colour. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons and everyday life cinnamon goes into cinnamon rolls, apple pie, porridge and hot chocolate. In geography and history, it is a spice that once came from Sri Lanka and was traded across the world. Phrases: a cinnamon stick, ground cinnamon, cinnamon bun.

examples

• Sprinkle some cinnamon on your porridge. tree →
• Grandma's apple pie smells of cinnamon. tree →
• We bought cinnamon buns at the bakery. tree →
• Cinnamon comes from the bark of a tree. tree →
• Stir your drink with a cinnamon stick. tree →
• The puppy had a soft cinnamon coat. tree →
• I took them gratefully, and as we went from one island to another I laid in stores of cloves, cinnamon, and other spices. tree →

note

Spelling: double «n» in the middle, single «m»: cin-na-mon. Uncountable. Do not eat a spoonful of dry cinnamon as a dare — it can make you choke.

In the corpora

• Swallowing a spoonful of a dry powder like cinnamon for a dare can make you choke and hurt your lungs.
• I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
• Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cinnamon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.