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Definition of Red cedar

1. Noun. Large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States.

2. Noun. Small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles.

3. Noun. Tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark.

4. Noun. Fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees.

Definition of Red cedar

1. Noun. an evergreen tree of the juniper family having reddish wood and found in North America. ¹

2. Noun. an evergreen tree of the arbor vitae family with reddish wood, found in North America. ¹

3. Noun. an evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia. ¹

4. Noun. the wood of any of these trees. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Cedar

red bone marrow red brick universities red brick university red bryony red buckeye red cabbage red cabbages red campion red cap red car

red card red cards red carpet red carpet(a) red cedar (current term) red cell red cell adherence phenomenon red cell adherence test red cell cast red cent

red cents red chip red circle rate red clay red clover red coat red cole red coral red corpuscle

Literary usage of Red cedar

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

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"In New York I have feen pretty large yachts ~ built of red cedar. Several yachts which go from ... they cannot make any yachts or other boats of red cedar, ..."

2. The North American Sylva, Or, A Description of the Forest Trees, of the by François André Michaux, Augustus Lucas Hillhouse (1819)
"THE red cedar, which belongs to the Junipers, is the most common species of its genus in the United States, and the only one which attains such dimensions ..."

3. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"950000. Modulus of Rupture. 10500. Remarks. Fragrance of wood utilized as insecticide. The Western red cedar (/. scopulorum) and the Southern red cedar ..."

4. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey (1919)
"White cedar is found along the eastern coast and around the Great Lakes; red cedar grows in the region east of Colorado and north of Florida. ..."

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