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common name usually applied to giant arborvitae (q.v.) but also used for a species of false cypress (q.v.).
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canoe cedar
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canoe cedar — Thuja Thu ja, n. [NL., from Gr. ? an African tree with sweet smelling wood.] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
canoe cedar — noun large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States • Syn: ↑western red cedar, ↑red cedar, ↑Thuja plicata • Hypernyms: ↑arborvitae • Member Holonyms: ↑Thuja, ↑genus Thuja … Useful english dictionary
Cedar Campus — is an Intervarsity camp in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It also holds family camps in the summer. Geography Cedar Campus is located in Prentiss Bay on Lake Huron. It is a couple miles east of Port Dolomite quarry on M 134. It is mostly wooded … Wikipedia
Canoe — A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered. In its human… … Wikipedia
Cedar River (New York) — The Cedar River is a 27 mile long river in the central Adirondacks, in the town of Lake Pleasant near the hamlet of Indian Lake in Hamilton County, New York. It flows northeast, from the Cedar Lakes, through the Cedar River Flow, to join the… … Wikipedia
Cedar Lake (Ontario) — There are several Cedar Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario.Infobox lake lake name = Cedar Lake image lake = caption lake = image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = Algonquin Provincial Park, Nipissing District, Ontario coords =… … Wikipedia
western red cedar — noun large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States • Syn: ↑red cedar, ↑canoe cedar, ↑Thuja plicata • Hypernyms: ↑arborvitae • Member Holonyms: ↑Thuja, ↑genus Thuja … Useful english dictionary
red cedar — noun 1. tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon red bark • Syn: ↑incense cedar, ↑Calocedrus decurrens, ↑Libocedrus decurrens • Hypernyms: ↑cedar, ↑cedar tree • Member Holonyms … Useful english dictionary
red cedar — Thuja Thu ja, n. [NL., from Gr. ? an African tree with sweet smelling wood.] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
western cedar — noun 1. or western juniper a. : a timber tree (Juniperus occidentalis) of the Pacific coast of the United States often of shrubby growth in the mountains b. : the wood of the western cedar tree 2 … Useful english dictionary
