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单词 white cedar
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white cedar
3. Applied, with or without distinguishing epithet, to various trees more or less resembling the true cedar: including species of Cedrela, Juniperus, Thuja, Cupressus, Pinus, etc.: e.g. Barbados cedar, Canary cedar, pencil-wood cedar, prickly cedar, Virginia red cedar, white cedar, which are species of Juniper; Barbados bastard cedar, Brazilian cedar, Chinese cedar, falsa cedar, Honduras cedar, Jamaica cedar, red Australian cedar, Singapore cedar, West Indian cedar, which are species of Cedrela; British Columbian cedar, Californian cedar, white cedar, which are Thujas; Bussaco cedar, Goa cedar, Oregon white cedar, Port Orford white cedar, which are Cypresses. bastard cedar n. in different countries, applied to species of Cedrela, Dysoxylon, Guazuma, Icica. The ‘cedar’ used for black lead pencils is the wood of Juniperus bermudiana and virginiana, which also yield oil of cedar. Also Cape cedar n. Widdringtonia juniperoides. Dominica cedar n. Bignonia Leucoxylon. incense cedar n. Libocedrus. Japan cedar n. Cryptomeria japonica. Queensland cedar n. Pentaceras australis. red Californian cedar n. Libocedrus decurrens. Russian cedar n. Pinus Cembra. water cedar n. Chamæcyparis.Bermuda cedar, East Indian cedar: see the first element.
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cedar1702
1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy i. 26 Above all, is commended, the Oil of Cedar, or that of Juniper.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 128 Cedar Tree [Juniperus Barbadensis]..It has a reddish, not close but lax, odoriferous wood.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The cedar brought from Barbadoes and Jamaica is a spurious sort. Cedar cups..are made out of the wood of the bastard cedar.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 13 The cedar [Cedrela odorata] and mahogany,..may be raised with little care in all the waste hilly lands.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 247 The wood of Juniperus virginiana is commonly used for ‘lead pencils’, under the name of Red Cedar.
1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 125 They are patches of Cape Cedar..and this is the only locality in which the tree is found.
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white cedar
white cedar n. (a) any of several North American coniferous trees, esp. Chamaecyparis thyoides and Thuja occidentalis; (also) the wood of any of these trees; (b) any of various tropical trees of South and South-East Asia and Australia, esp. Melia azedarach (see azedarac n. 1) and Melia dubia (family Meliaceae).Quot. 1463-5 probably shows an error for White Ledur whitleather n. rather than an earlier example of this compound.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun]
cedarc1000
cedar-treec1000
fir-cedar1601
white cedar1654
arbor vitae1664
Thuya1707
thuja1764
American arbor vitae1785
Honduras cedar1799
Cedrela1832
kawaka1832
deodar1842
stinking cedar1866
stinking yew1866
Alaska cedar1874
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > azedarac
white cedar1654
bead-tree1668
azedarac1753
Melia1753
pride of China1778
pride of India1803
margosa1813
neema1819
China-tree1819
sandal-tree1864
holy tree1866
China-berry1890
1463–5 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1904) 10 107 (MED) We payde for White Cedur to mende ye bawdrykes of ye bell..vi d.]
1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. viii. 15 They run with their light cannowes, (which are a kinde of Boates made of Birch Rindes, and sowed together with the rootes of white Cedar-Trees).
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 89 Ever-Greens are here plentifully found, of a very quick Growth, and pleasant Shade; Cypress, or White Cedar, the Pitch Pine, the yellow Pine.
1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. iii. 60 The white cedar (Melia Azedarach).
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 151 The main production [of the Great Dismal Swamp] has been of cypress and juniper, the latter commonly known as white cedar, at the North.
1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 20 The white cedar..is a welcome and not unworthy substitute in appearance and perfume for English lilac.
1980 P. Moyes Angel Death xi. 148 A fallen tree—a biggish white cedar with a trunk about a foot in diameter.
2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 27 July 19 A coral tree and a white cedar are very large for the space and will definitely upset those neighbours.
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