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Definition of Cedrus
1. Noun. True cedars.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Pinaceae, Pinaceae, Pine Family
Member holonyms: Cedar, Cedar Tree, True Cedar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cedrus
Literary usage of Cedrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(2) The tree growing "by the waterside" (Num., xxiv, 6) appears from Ez., xxxi,
7, to be the cedrus libani, which usually thrives on dry mountain slopes. ..."
2. The plants of the Bible, trees and shrubs by John Hutton Balfour (1885)
"(cedrus Libanl, Linn.) " The boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. ...
It is the cedrus Libani of botanists, and belongs to the natural order ..."
3. The Plants of the Bible by John Hutton Balfour (1885)
"(cedrus Libanl, Linn.) " The boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. ...
It is the cedrus Libani of botanists, and belongs to the natural order ..."
4. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1848)
"Comparatively few of the trees of recent introduction, deserve a special notice
of this kind, and, if we except Araucaria imbricata, and the cedrus Deodara, ..."
5. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"... Dacrydium, Taxus, cedrus, Picea. With resin-ducts. Pinus, Tsuga, Abies, Larix,
those in Tsuga and Abies being sometimes very scanty or absent. ..."
6. Handbook of West-American Cone-bearers by John Gill Lemmon (1900)
"Genus cedrus-^k. THE TRUE CEDARS- Trees with cones (maturing in two years), erect,
large,depressed at the ends; the leaves short, slender, mostly tufted and ..."
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