PENCIL CEDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pencil cedar mean? 

• PENCIL CEDAR (noun)
  The noun PENCIL CEDAR has 2 senses:

1. any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils

2. wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils

  Familiarity information: PENCIL CEDAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENCIL CEDAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pencil cedar; pencil cedar tree

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

juniper (coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones)

Meronyms (substance of "pencil cedar"):

pencil cedar (wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils)

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

eastern red cedar; Juniperus virginiana; red cedar; red juniper (small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles)

Bermuda cedar; Juniperus bermudiana (ornamental densely pyramidal juniper of Bermuda; fairly large for a juniper)

east African cedar; Juniperus procera (tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood)

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

genus Juniperus; Juniperus (junipers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

pencil cedar; pencil cedar tree (any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils)