cryptomeria
noun
cryp·to·me·ria ˌkrip-tə-ˈmir-ē-ə 
: japanese cedar
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web One favorite find is a circa 1950 Japanese cryptomeria wood carving of a toad, complete with baby toads on its back; this takes pride of place in the foyer. 
Robert Rufino, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022 Most of the furniture and finishings were made on the island, much from a native wood called cryptomeria. Ann Abel, Forbes, 16 May 2022 The priest, sandals slapping, heads down a lane lined with stone lanterns and towering cryptomeria trees to a gateway, or torii, that bears the mountain’s name. Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
Robert Rufino, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022 Most of the furniture and finishings were made on the island, much from a native wood called cryptomeria. Ann Abel, Forbes, 16 May 2022 The priest, sandals slapping, heads down a lane lined with stone lanterns and towering cryptomeria trees to a gateway, or torii, that bears the mountain’s name. Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017 Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin Cryptomeria, genus name, from crypto- crypto- + -meria, borrowed from Greek -mereia "condition of having parts (of such a kind)," derivative of -merēs "having parts (of such a kind)," adjective derivative of méros "part" — more at merit entry 1
Note: Genus name introduced by the Scottish botanist David Don (1799-1841) in Annals of Natural History, vol. 1 (1838), p. 233-34. In a later publication ("Descriptions of two new Genera of the Natural Family of Plants called Coniferae," Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, v. 18 [1841], pp. 163-79), Don states that the generic name was suggested by "the concealed position of the reproductive organs" (p. 171).
First Known Use
1841, in the meaning defined above