red cedar

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1. •
   A juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.

   • Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat, […] — 1892
2. •
   An arborvitae (Thuja plicata), found in North America.

   • She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree. — 1941
3. •
   A tree of species Toona sureni, of eastern Asia.
4. •
   An evergreen tree of the mahogany family with reddish wood, found in Australia (Toona australis).
5. •
   A tree of species Trichilia hirta, found from Mexico to Paraguay.
6. •
   Wood of any of these trees.