CEDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cedar mean? 

• CEDAR (noun)
  The noun CEDAR has 3 senses:

1. any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars

2. durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests

3. any cedar of the genus Cedrus

  Familiarity information: CEDAR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEDAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cedar; cedar tree

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

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (substance of "cedar"):

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 "cedar"):

Libocedrus bidwillii; mountain pine; pahautea (evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka)

kawaka; Libocedrus plumosa (New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress)

incense cedar (any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood)

Cryptomeria japonica; Japan cedar; Japanese cedar; sugi (tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood)

Alaska cedar; Chamaecyparis nootkatensis; Nootka cypress; yellow cedar; yellow cypress (tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament)

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana; Lawson's cedar; Lawson's cypress; Oregon cedar; Port Orford cedar (large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet)

Atlantic white cedar; Chamaecyparis thyoides; coast white cedar; southern white cedar; white cedar; white cypress (slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae)

Calocedrus decurrens; incense cedar; Libocedrus decurrens; red cedar (tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark)

Austrocedrus chilensis; Chilean cedar (a small South American evergreen having coppery bark and pretty foliage)

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

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cedar; cedarwood

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

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

red cedar (fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees)

Port Orford cedar (the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree)

Holonyms ("cedar" is a substance of...):

cedar; cedar tree; true cedar (any cedar of the genus Cedrus)

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any cedar of the genus Cedrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cedar; cedar tree; true cedar

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

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (substance of "cedar"):

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 "cedar"):

cedar of Lebanon; Cedrus libani (cedar of Lebanon and northwestern Syria that attains great age and height)

Cedrus deodara; deodar; deodar cedar; Himalayan cedar (tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber)

Atlas cedar; Cedrus atlantica (tall Algerian evergreen of Atlas mountains with blue-green leaves; widely planted as an ornamental)

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

Cedrus; genus Cedrus (true cedars)

 Context examples 

Cedar oil is typically used for its aromatic properties.

(Cedar Leaf Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Eastern red cedar and red cedar.

(Cedarwood, NCI Dictionary)

Cedar oil is used in cleaning products and for aromatherapy.

(Cedrus deodara Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called cedarwood and red cedar.

(Eastern red cedar, NCI Dictionary)

She advanced and examined it closely: it was of cedar, curiously inlaid with some darker wood, and raised, about a foot from the ground, on a carved stand of the same.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What did Mother give you out of the treasure box? asked Amy, who had not been present at the opening of a certain cedar chest in which Mrs. March kept a few relics of past splendor, as gifts for her girls when the proper time came.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)