WHITE CEDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white cedar mean? 

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

1. small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

2. slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE CEDAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American arborvitae; northern white cedar; Thuja occidentalis; white cedar

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

arborvitae (any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis)

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

genus Thuja; Thuja (red cedar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Atlantic white cedar; Chamaecyparis thyoides; coast white cedar; southern white cedar; white cedar; white cypress

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

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

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

Chamaecyparis; genus Chamaecyparis (a genus of Chamaecyparis)