Meaning of red cedar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.
   countable, uncountable
2. An arborvitae (Thuja plicata), found in North America.
   countable, uncountable
3. A tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.
   countable, uncountable
4. An evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).
   countable, uncountable
5. A tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.
   countable, uncountable
6. Wood of any of these trees.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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, […]”

“She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree.”

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