Red Cedar Definition

noun
A small, evergreen, eastern North American tree (Juniperus virginiana) having scalelike or awl-shaped leaves and fleshy, purplish-black seed cones.
American Heritage
A tall, evergreen, western North American tree (Thuja plicata) having flattened branches, scalelike opposite leaves, and small, ovoid seed cones.
American Heritage
Any of a number of juniper trees or shrubs with bluish, berrylike fruit and red wood.
Webster's New World
The wood of any of these.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Red Cedar

Noun

Singular:
red cedar
Plural:
red cedars

Red Cedar Sentence Examples

  • There are also several extremely valuable soft timbers, the principal being red cedar (Cedrela Toona), silky oak (Grevillea robusta), beech and a variety of teak, with several important species of pine.

  • Fresh-water pearls of considerable value and beauty are found in the Red Cedar river.

  • The wood of the cedar of Lebanon is fragrant, though not so strongly scented as that of the juniper or red-cedar of America.

  • Many trees of the eastern forest, such as basswood, sugar, river and red maple, red, white and black ash, red and rock elm, black and bur oak, white and red pine and red cedar find their western limit here.

  • The Virginian red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) grows in the United States, Canada and the West Indies.

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