red cedar

plural red cedars · alternative redcedar

1. countableuncountableA juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.

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   1892, Walt Whitman, "Our Old Feuillage" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), Modern Library, 1921, p. 147, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat, […]

2. countableuncountableAn arborvitae (Thuja plicata), found in North America.

   She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree.

   1941, Emily Carr, chapter 11, in Klee Wyck

   Synonyms: western red cedar, giant arborvitae

3. countableuncountableA tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.
4. countableuncountableAn evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).

   Synonyms: Australian red cedar

5. countableuncountableA tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.
6. countableuncountableWood of any of these trees.