Meanings
- not comparableOf, or relating to, trees in the genus Cedrus of the plant family Pinaceae.
Visitors to the famous arboretum at Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, may care to be reminded that there is an attractive middle-aged group of this non-cedrous cedar there.
1957, Haymarket Publishing, Gardeners' Chronicle, Horticultural Trade Journal, Volume 1422 more examples
Of cedrous trees and sapphire blocks built high, whereon are graved, by deft and loving hands, true likenesses of all who therein keep their standards; it is full of winding ways.
1890, Sophia Lydia Walters, Lostara: A PoemThe cedars of shingles and the familiar wooden houses is yet another non-cedrous species, Thuya plicala — much nearer to a cypress than a cedar and quite different from the Thuya of antique veneers.
1947, Country Life, Volume 101
Origin
- Latincedrus“cedar”
- Englishcedrous
From Latin cedrus (“cedar”) + -ous.
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