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CEDARWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cedarwood mean? 

CEDARWOOD (noun)
  The noun CEDARWOOD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CEDARWOOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CEDARWOOD (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("cedarwood" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

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

Holonyms ("cedarwood" 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)


 Context examples 


Red cedarwood oil is used as an insect repellant, expectorant, antiseptic, and fungicide.

(Juniperus Virginiana Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called cedarwood and red cedar.

(Eastern red cedar, NCI Dictionary)



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