单词 | red cedar |
释义 | red cedarn. 1. More fully eastern red cedar, Virginian red cedar. A juniper of eastern North America, Juniperus virginiana, which has reddish bark and heartwood; the wood of this tree. Also called pencil cedar. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > junipers > [noun] gorsec1000 savinOE juniper-treea1382 junipera1400 quickena1400 juniperinec1430 cade1575 jeniver1585 melmot1644 oxycedar1646 red cedar1682 cover-shame1694 Bermuda cedar1700 pencil cedar1785 sharp cedar1840 Rocky Mountain juniper1852 tuckamore1863 tucking-bush1890 1682 S. Wilson Acct. Province Carolina 12 This Country hath..divers sorts of lasting Timber that England hath not, as Cedar white and red, Cypress, Locust, Bay and Laurel Trees. 1717 Petiveriana iii. 11/2 Red Cedar. An Evergreen, its Wood sweet, very durable. 1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) viii. 122/1 The red cedar..attains to the size of a timber tree in deep sandy loam soils. 1904 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 81 The Virginian Juniper..or ‘Red Cedar’, as it is called on the American continent, is..frequently planted in our parks and gardens. 1972 Ecology 53 1141/2 ‘Fruits’ of pasture juniper and red cedar are important foods for red squirrel and various birds. 2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 71 Less common, but equally valued are the Atlantic white cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides, found in swamps, and the eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana. 2. Australian. The toon tree, Toona ciliata (formerly included in the genus Cedrela); (also) the reddish wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 1818 J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. New S. Wales (1820) 29 Sept. In this bush was a quantity of fine red cedar trees. 1824 W. C. Wentworth Statist. Acct. Brit. Settlements Australasia (ed. 3) I. 89 The gorges of the vallies..were extremely rich and covered with beautiful timber, comprizing, with the omission of red cedar, all the valuable sorts which are found at the Coal River and the Five Islands. 1829 R. Mudie Picture Austral. 138 The red cedar is often of considerable dimensions—upwards of forty feet in height. 1949 F. N. Howes Veg. Gums & Resins iv. 57 Cedrela toona:—The red cedar or ‘toon’ tree of India is well known for its reddish open grained wood. 2005 Austral. Jrnl. Bot. 53 21 We examined Toona ciliata M. Roemer (Australian red cedar) for its potential to deliver annually resolved tree-ring proxy data. ΚΠ 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 80 In New South Wales the term..red cedar [is applied] to that of Flindersia australis, as well as to the wood of the Toon-tree, or Cedrela Toona. 4. A coniferous tree of western North America, Thuja plicata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs black-gum1709 white gum1709 red fir1722 Quebec oak1768 Pennsylvania fir tree1770 Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785 Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785 pepperbush1785 pepperbush1785 southern pine1796 titi1827 palo blanco1829 mock orange1860 palo fierro1860 mountain laurel1866 Joshua1867 red cedar1872 porkwood1884 guajillo1886 mountain balm1924 1872 A. D. Carlisle Round World in 1870 xx. 246 The Arbor vitæ (Thuja gigantea), known also in California as the red cedar. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 7 The hemlock, and the red cedar (Thuya) are still important elements of the forests. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World iv. 63/1 Western red-cedar..is native along the Pacific Coast of North America. 2002 Bryologist 105 674/2 The forests were classified as old growth (250+ years), with western red cedar Thuja plicata L. and western hemlock..as the leading species. Compounds General attributive, as red cedar log, red cedar tree, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > junipers > [adjective] > of types of juniper red cedar1742 1742 Harvard Rec. 2 716 His Acco[unt] of Red Cedar Posts. 1756 B. Franklin Poor Richard Improved in Papers (1963) VI. 318 I recommended the Propagation of Red Cedar Trees. 1818Red cedar tree [see sense 2]. 1851 Knickerbocker 37 377 The country-bred traveller..inhales the odor of the red-cedar buckets. 1923 N. Brown Amer. Lumber Industry xi. 195 (caption) The largest stump over the fallen red cedar log has 1380 annual rings. 1956 Times 22 Aug. 8/4 The raft of rough-hewn red cedar logs..on which three Frenchmen from Canada have drifted across the Atlantic..was towed into Falmouth harbour to-day. 2006 Jrnl. Chem. Ecol. 31 2933 We identified..the sex pheromone of female red cedar cone midge Mayetiola thujae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1682 |
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