Definition of Deodar

1. Noun. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber.


Definition of Deodar

1. n. A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

Definition of Deodar

1. Noun. ''Cedrus deodara'', a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deodar

1. an East Indian cedar [n -S]

Medical Definition of Deodar

1. A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree. Origin: Native name, fr. Skr. Dadaru, prop, timber of the gods. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Deodar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"Beyond the region of the south-west monsoon, deodar is still found, but it gets gradually scarcer, and in such places its companions may be Pinus ..."

2. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Pinus Cedru*, Linn., and C. atlántica, Manetti—thé Lebanon and Atlas Cedars—are во closely allied to the deodar that it is not possible to separate them by ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"I have stated, he continues, that the deodar is possibly a variety of the Cedar ... The cones of the deodar are identical with those of the Cedar of Lebanon ..."

4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"Besides these patches there are of course many individual trees of deodar amongst the dense mass of inferior pines; but they are in no place sufficiently ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"THIS communication consisted of a report upon the deodar forests of the Western Himalaya, which he explored in 1862 and 1803, with a view of obtaining ..."

6. Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal (1897)
"The deodar limb is about forty years of age, Cedar of Lebanon a little older, and the Larch older still. I have cut them and planed them to show the wood ..."

7. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1853)
""When the deodar was first raised from soed in this country, ... "That the Cedar and deodar are very closely allied to one another no one doubts. ..."

8. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1854)
"On the Introduction of the Magnificent Forest Tree, the deodar, from India into England. The cultivation of this magnificent forest tree is about to engage ..."

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