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red cedar en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.
    • 1892, Walt Whitman, "Our Old Feuillage" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), Modern Library, 1921, p. 147, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat, […]
  2. (countable, uncountable) An arborvitae (Thuja plicata), found in North America.
    • She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree. 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 11, in Klee Wyck:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.
  4. (countable, uncountable) An evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).
  5. (countable, uncountable) A tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.
  6. (countable, uncountable) Wood of any of these trees.

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Synonyms

eastern juniper · eastern red cedar · Australian red cedar (tree of the mahogany family) · giant arborvitae (arbor vitae) · western red cedar (arbor vitae)