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单词 red cedar
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red cedarn.

Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈsiːdə/, U.S. /ˈˌrɛd ˈsidər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., cedar n.
Etymology: < red adj. + cedar n.
1. More fully eastern red cedar, Virginian red cedar. A juniper of eastern North America, Juniperus virginiana, which has reddish bark and heartwood; the wood of this tree. Also called pencil cedar.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > junipers > [noun]
gorsec1000
savinOE
juniper-treea1382
junipera1400
quickena1400
juniperinec1430
cade1575
jeniver1585
melmot1644
oxycedar1646
red cedar1682
cover-shame1694
Bermuda cedar1700
pencil cedar1785
sharp cedar1840
Rocky Mountain juniper1852
tuckamore1863
tucking-bush1890
1682 S. Wilson Acct. Province Carolina 12 This Country hath..divers sorts of lasting Timber that England hath not, as Cedar white and red, Cypress, Locust, Bay and Laurel Trees.
1717 Petiveriana iii. 11/2 Red Cedar. An Evergreen, its Wood sweet, very durable.
1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) viii. 122/1 The red cedar..attains to the size of a timber tree in deep sandy loam soils.
1904 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 81 The Virginian Juniper..or ‘Red Cedar’, as it is called on the American continent, is..frequently planted in our parks and gardens.
1972 Ecology 53 1141/2 ‘Fruits’ of pasture juniper and red cedar are important foods for red squirrel and various birds.
2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 71 Less common, but equally valued are the Atlantic white cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides, found in swamps, and the eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana.
2. Australian. The toon tree, Toona ciliata (formerly included in the genus Cedrela); (also) the reddish wood of this tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1818 J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. New S. Wales (1820) 29 Sept. In this bush was a quantity of fine red cedar trees.
1824 W. C. Wentworth Statist. Acct. Brit. Settlements Australasia (ed. 3) I. 89 The gorges of the vallies..were extremely rich and covered with beautiful timber, comprizing, with the omission of red cedar, all the valuable sorts which are found at the Coal River and the Five Islands.
1829 R. Mudie Picture Austral. 138 The red cedar is often of considerable dimensions—upwards of forty feet in height.
1949 F. N. Howes Veg. Gums & Resins iv. 57 Cedrela toona:—The red cedar or ‘toon’ tree of India is well known for its reddish open grained wood.
2005 Austral. Jrnl. Bot. 53 21 We examined Toona ciliata M. Roemer (Australian red cedar) for its potential to deliver annually resolved tree-ring proxy data.
3. The wood of the Australian timber tree Flindersia australis. Obsolete. rare.
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1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 80 In New South Wales the term..red cedar [is applied] to that of Flindersia australis, as well as to the wood of the Toon-tree, or Cedrela Toona.
4. A coniferous tree of western North America, Thuja plicata.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs
black-gum1709
white gum1709
red fir1722
Quebec oak1768
Pennsylvania fir tree1770
Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785
Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785
pepperbush1785
pepperbush1785
southern pine1796
titi1827
palo blanco1829
mock orange1860
palo fierro1860
mountain laurel1866
Joshua1867
red cedar1872
porkwood1884
guajillo1886
mountain balm1924
1872 A. D. Carlisle Round World in 1870 xx. 246 The Arbor vitæ (Thuja gigantea), known also in California as the red cedar.
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 7 The hemlock, and the red cedar (Thuya) are still important elements of the forests.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World iv. 63/1 Western red-cedar..is native along the Pacific Coast of North America.
2002 Bryologist 105 674/2 The forests were classified as old growth (250+ years), with western red cedar Thuja plicata L. and western hemlock..as the leading species.

Compounds

General attributive, as red cedar log, red cedar tree, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > junipers > [adjective] > of types of juniper
red cedar1742
1742 Harvard Rec. 2 716 His Acco[unt] of Red Cedar Posts.
1756 B. Franklin Poor Richard Improved in Papers (1963) VI. 318 I recommended the Propagation of Red Cedar Trees.
1818Red cedar tree [see sense 2].
1851 Knickerbocker 37 377 The country-bred traveller..inhales the odor of the red-cedar buckets.
1923 N. Brown Amer. Lumber Industry xi. 195 (caption) The largest stump over the fallen red cedar log has 1380 annual rings.
1956 Times 22 Aug. 8/4 The raft of rough-hewn red cedar logs..on which three Frenchmen from Canada have drifted across the Atlantic..was towed into Falmouth harbour to-day.
2006 Jrnl. Chem. Ecol. 31 2933 We identified..the sex pheromone of female red cedar cone midge Mayetiola thujae.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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