red cedar

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See also: redcedar

English

Eastern Juniper Sandy Hook Old Dune Trail in winter (Juniperus virginiana)
Walbran Castle Giant (Thuja plicata)

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Noun

red cedar (countable and uncountable, plural red cedars)

  1. 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,
      Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,
  2. An arbor vitae of species Thuja plicata), found in North America.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 11, in Klee Wyck‎:
      She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree.
  3. A tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.
  4. An evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).
  5. A tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.
  6. Wood of any of these trees.

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