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Cedar tree   /sˈidər tri/   Listen
Cedar tree

noun
1.
Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.  Synonym: cedar.
2.
Any cedar of the genus Cedrus.  Synonyms: cedar, true cedar.



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"Cedar tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... found an especially fine place under the gnarled boughs of an old cedar tree, that would have held its head high in the starlight if some of dad's gardeners had not twisted it out of growth and shape. Hiding under the crooked shadows, Dan was listening to the merry shouts through maze and garden, when he became suddenly conscious of a change ...
— Killykinick • Mary T. Waggaman

... old dead top of a pine or cedar. If you cannot find one, chop down a cedar tree. Whittle a handful of splinters and shavings from the dry heart. Try to find the lee side of a rock or log where the wind and rain do not beat in. First put down the shavings or some dry birch bark if you can find it, and shelter it as well as you can from the rain. Pile up some ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... of humiliation, and specially in reference to His origin from the house of David, sunk into complete obscurity, compared to a weak, insignificant twig, so He is, in Ezek. xvii. 23, in reference to His state of glorification, compared to a lofty, splendid cedar tree, under which all the fowls of heaven dwell. The Jews, in opposition even to ver. 22 of Ezekiel, expected that He should appear so from the very beginning; and since He did not appear so, they [Pg 279] despised Him. The [Hebrew: vnrahv] is, by most of ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg

... artistic log structure, a single story in height, with a broad veranda running the length of the front. Right at either end of the lodge was a huge cedar tree, and more cedars were at the edge of the clearing. Behind the bungalow was a small barn and also a fair-sized woodshed and close by was a small building which Gif explained to them was used in the summer ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

... drawing of the old school, on the brow of the green hill, against the trees. There were small figures on the green lawn, women in lavender and yellow moving to the shade of the enormous, beautifully balanced cedar tree. ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... three horizontal bands of red (top), white (double width), and red with a green and brown cedar tree centered ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... a little forward, leaving the carnation bed, and halted under the shade of the dark cedar tree, her heart and colour alike fading. Mr. Yorke ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood

... towards a garden-seat. All the gates and seats on Miss Abingdon's small property were painted white once a year, and their trim spotlessness gave an air of homely opulence to the place. The bench which her young relatives sought was placed beneath a beneficent cedar tree that stretched out long, kindly branches, and looked as though it were wrought of stitch-work in deep blue satin. Jane wiped her fingers upon the baize apron, and Peter lighted ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan



Words linked to "Cedar tree" :   true cedar, Libocedrus plumosa, Libocedrus bidwillii, coniferous tree, Libocedrus decurrens, Nootka cypress, white cedar, coast white cedar, white cypress, Lawson's cedar, Austrocedrus chilensis, Himalayan cedar, Cedrus libani, genus Cedrus, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, mountain pine, Alaska cedar, yellow cypress, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Cedrus, Japan cedar, incense cedar, pahautea, cedar of Lebanon, cypress family, Japanese cedar, Spanish cedar tree, Cupressaceae, conifer, Calocedrus decurrens, family Cupressaceae, Chamaecyparis thyoides, sugi, Lawson's cypress, Atlantic white cedar, Cryptomeria japonica, southern white cedar, deodar, cedarwood, kawaka, Chilean cedar, red cedar, Oregon cedar, Cedrus atlantica, Port Orford cedar, Atlas cedar, Cedrus deodara, cedar, deodar cedar, yellow cedar



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