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☆ red cedar

  1. any of a number of juniper trees or shrubs with bluish, berrylike fruit and red wood; esp.,
    1. the eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) of E North America, with fragrant wood often used to line closets and chests
    2. the Rocky Mountain red cedar (J. scopulorum), valued for lumber
  2. the wood of any of these

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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