Definition of "cedar" []

• Any of several Old World evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having stiff needles on short shoots and large erect seed cones with broad deciduous scales. (noun)
• Any of several other evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs, such as the Alaska cedar, incense cedar, or red cedar. (noun)
• The durable aromatic wood of any of these plants, especially that of the red cedar, often used to make chests. (noun)

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• "It was a beautiful spot, the clear torrent of the river Montmerenci falling in cascades over a curious formation of layers of stone and steps on either side, with the bright green _arbor vitae_, which they call cedar, growing above and in every niche it can find a bit of soil; wild raspberries and strawberries too, which, alas, were over."
• "Crozet, however, asserts, in his account of Marion's voyage that they found what he calls the cedar of New Zealand to weigh no heavier than the best Riga fir."
• "They can put it in cedar hills where the socialist nimby's kept out Walmart."