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white cedar
common name of several species of trees
- Related Topics:
- wood
- false cypress
- incense cedar
- American arborvitae
- chinaberry
white cedar, in the lumber trade, any American arborvitae (q.v.), some species of false cypress (q.v.), and McNab cypress, incense cedar (q.v.), and California juniper. Nonconiferous trees that are called white cedar include the chinaberry and some members of the flowering plant families Bignoniaceae, Celastraceae, Myristicaceae, Burseraceae, and Dipterocarpaceae.