cinnamons
- 1Plural of cinnamon.
The chef kept several cinnamons on hand for different desserts.
Ceylon and cassia cinnamons differ noticeably in flavor and price.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of the noun allow. The trees take it freely (true cinnamon, Indonesian cinnamon and Chinese cassia are all cinnamons), and so do shades of the warm yellowish-brown color. The ground or rolled spice is normally a mass noun, so a cook asks for a pinch of cinnamon, not of cinnamons. The plural returns only when kinds are being compared, as in Ceylon and cassia cinnamons.
cinnamons is a form of cinnamon
cinnamon, noun: A spice consisting of the dried, aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, sold as rolled strips or ground into powder, and traded under that name for several related species. Full entry
- Forms
- cinnamoncinnamons plural
- Spelling
- cinnamon → cinnamons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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