red cedar

See also: redcedar

English

Eastern Juniper Sandy Hook Old Dune Trail in winter (Juniperus virginiana)

Walbran Castle Giant (Thuja plicata)

Alternative forms

• redcedar (US)

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, [1]

     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 (Thuja plicata), found in North America.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 11, in Klee Wyck‎^[2]:

     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.

Synonyms

• (juniper): eastern juniper, eastern red cedar
• (arbor vitae): western red cedar, giant arborvitae (US)
• (tree of the mahogany family): Australian red cedar

References

• red cedar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juniperus virginiana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Thuja plicata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Toona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Trichilia hirta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• decarred