单词 | white cedar |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun] > tree resembling 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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