RED CEDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red cedar mean? 

• RED CEDAR (noun)
  The noun RED CEDAR has 4 senses:

1. large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States

2. small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles

3. tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark

4. fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees

  Familiarity information: RED CEDAR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED CEDAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

canoe cedar; red cedar; Thuja plicata; western red cedar

Hypernyms ("red cedar" is a kind of...):

arborvitae (any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis)

Holonyms ("red cedar" is a member of...):

genus Thuja; Thuja (red cedar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

eastern red cedar; Juniperus virginiana; red cedar; red juniper

Hypernyms ("red cedar" is a kind of...):

pencil cedar; pencil cedar tree (any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calocedrus decurrens; incense cedar; Libocedrus decurrens; red cedar

Hypernyms ("red cedar" is a kind of...):

cedar; cedar tree (any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars)

Holonyms ("red cedar" is a member of...):

Calocedrus; genus Calocedrus (tall evergreens of western North America and eastern Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("red cedar" is a kind of...):

cedar; cedarwood (durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red cedar"):

pencil cedar (wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils)

 Context examples 

Also called Eastern red cedar and red cedar.

(Cedarwood, NCI Dictionary)

Also called cedarwood and red cedar.

(Eastern red cedar, NCI Dictionary)