Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

red cedar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: red cedar
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An arborvitae (Thuja plicata), found in North America.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Wood of any of these trees.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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, […]"
"She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree."

Usage

Inflected Forms

red cedars (plural) redcedar (alternative)

Synonyms

eastern juniper eastern red cedar western red cedar giant arborvitae Australian red cedar incense cedar calocedrus decurrens libocedrus decurrens

Questions

What does red cedar mean?: A juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.

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