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incense cedar

incense cedar noun: any of the species of coniferous trees of the genus Calocedrus, with fragrant wood.

Noun

incense cedar (plural incense cedars)

  1. Any of the species of coniferous trees of the genus Calocedrus, with fragrant wood.
    • Another conifer was met to-day,—incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), a large tree with warm yellow-green foliage in flat plumes like those of arborvitæ, bark cinnamon-colored, and as the boles of the old trees are without limbs they make striking pillars in the woods where the sun chances to shine...1911, John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

Forms of incense cedar

pluralincense cedars

Questions about incense cedar

What does incense cedar mean?
Incense cedar means any of the species of coniferous trees of the genus Calocedrus, with fragrant wood.
What part of speech is incense cedar?
Incense cedar is a noun.
What is the plural of incense cedar?
The plural of incense cedar is incense cedars.

Words near incense cedar in the dictionary

  1. incensations
  2. incense
  3. incense boat
  4. incense boats
  5. incense burner
  6. incense cedar
  7. incense cedars
  8. incense stick
  9. incense sticks
  10. incense tree
  11. incense trees

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