Found 2 items, similar to red cedar.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: red cedar
red cedar
n 1: large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States
[syn:
western red cedar,
canoe cedar,
Thuja plicata]
2: small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic
crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp
needles [syn:
eastern red cedar,
red juniper,
Juniperus virginiana
]
3: tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having
foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark [syn:
incense cedar
,
Calocedrus decurrens,
Libocedrus decurrens]
4: fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees
English → English (gcide)
Definition: red cedar
Juniper
\Ju"ni*per\, n. [L. juniperus, prop., youth-producing,
and so called from its evergreen appearance, from the roots
of E. juvenile, and parent. Cf.
Gin the liquor.] (Bot.)
Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus
Juniperus and
order
Conifer[ae].
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Note: The common juniper (
Juniperus communis) is a shrub of
a low, spreading form, having awl-shaped, rigid leaves
in whorls of threes, and bearing small purplish blue
berries (or galbuli), of a warm, pungent taste, used as
diuretic and in flavoring gin. A resin exudes from the
bark, which has erroneously been considered identical
with sandarach, and is used as pounce. The oil of
juniper is acrid, and used for various purposes, as in
medicine, for making varnish, etc. The wood of several
species is of a reddish color, hard and durable, and is
used in cabinetwork under the names of
red cedar,
Bermuda cedar, etc.
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Juniper worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a geometrid moth
(
Drepanodes varus). It feeds upon the leaves of the
juniper, and mimics the small twigs both in form and
color, in a remarkable manner.
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Thuja
\Thu"ja\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? an African tree with
sweet-smelling wood.] (Bot.)
A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for
the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having
scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written
also
thuya.] See
Thyine wood.
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Note:
Thuja occidentalis is the
Arbor vit[ae] of the
Eastern and Northern United States.
Thuja gigantea of
North-waetern America is a very large tree, there
called
red cedar, and
canoe cedar, and furnishes a
useful timber.
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thuja oilcedar leaf oil.
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