Cedar
noun
A type of large tree with dark green leaves and hard, reddish wood.
We sat under a large cedar tree to have our picnic.
Often appears as...
- cedar tree
- cedar wood
noun
The wood from a cedar tree, often used for building because it is resistant to insects and decay.
The house was built with cedar, making it quite durable.
Often appears as...
- cedar chest
- cedar shingle
noun
Cedar is also a color, a slightly reddish shade of brown.
She painted the walls a warm cedar color.
Often appears as...
- cedar color
- cedar tone
noun
A type of large tree with dark green leaves and hard, reddish wood.
We sat under a large cedar tree to have our picnic.
Often appears as...
- cedar tree
- cedar wood
noun
The wood from a cedar tree, often used for building because it is resistant to insects and decay.
The house was built with cedar, making it quite durable.
Often appears as...
- cedar chest
- cedar shingle
noun
Cedar is also a color, a slightly reddish shade of brown.
She painted the walls a warm cedar color.
Often appears as...
- cedar color
- cedar tone
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Pro Tip 1/3Tree Species
Cedar refers to several tree species. Ensure you know the specific kind when it's important.
Lebanese cedars are famous for their historical significance.
Pro Tip 2/3Evergreen Nature
Cedars are evergreen, meaning they keep their leaves all year round, a detail useful in descriptions.
Even in winter, the cedar remained a vibrant green.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbolic Meaning
Cedars can symbolize strength and permanence in literature and culture.
Our family's roots are like the cedar, strong and unshakeable.
Pro Tip 1/3Tree Species
Cedar refers to several tree species. Ensure you know the specific kind when it's important.
Lebanese cedars are famous for their historical significance.
Pro Tip 2/3Evergreen Nature
Cedars are evergreen, meaning they keep their leaves all year round, a detail useful in descriptions.
Even in winter, the cedar remained a vibrant green.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbolic Meaning
Cedars can symbolize strength and permanence in literature and culture.
Our family's roots are like the cedar, strong and unshakeable.
Pro Tip 1/3Tree Species
Cedar refers to several tree species. Ensure you know the specific kind when it's important.
Lebanese cedars are famous for their historical significance.
Pro Tip 2/3Evergreen Nature
Cedars are evergreen, meaning they keep their leaves all year round, a detail useful in descriptions.
Even in winter, the cedar remained a vibrant green.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbolic Meaning
Cedars can symbolize strength and permanence in literature and culture.
Our family's roots are like the cedar, strong and unshakeable.
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Michael Pawlyn: Using...
were covered in cedar and cypress forests. And during the evolution of life on the Earth, it was the colonization of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy. The converse is also true. The more vegetation we lose, the more that's likely to exacerbate climate change
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We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.
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50 Years Ago, This Was a...
telling you I'm going to show you the greatest conservation tool ever made and everything I talked about could not have happened without grass the hill country is discovered with woody species primarily it's cedar we took out a great
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The rise and fall of the...
The greatest trophy a Celtic warrior could possess was the severed head of a foe. They preserved these heads in jars of cedar oil and showed them to guests who visited their homes. Celtic warriors were so valued in the ancient world
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The de-extinction of...
through second arrows at that where we are now Vancouver harbour it was living in the forest canopy was an entirely different world and tree Ranger nature's way of digitizing time so this piece of cedar from the treehouse spans five
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How to make a mummy -...
and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,
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How trees talk to each...
paper birch, Douglas fir, and western red cedar. I figured the birch and the fir would be connected in a belowground web, but not the cedar. It was in its own other world. And I gathered my apparatus,
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The rise and fall of...
importing gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and cedar wood. Trade was the unlikely impetus for the invention of the world’s first writing system. It started as a system of accounting for Sumerian merchants
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Screaming Mummy Mystery...
expensive cedar wood but it was blank totally unadorned in Egyptian theology a man couldn't enter the afterlife without his name so there's something disturbing about the fact that he was left
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Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
yakishima cedars like mighty pillars dominating the canopy the ancient cedars found on this island some of the most fascinating trees in the world they look as if they've been sculpted by
Video examples
Michael Pawlyn: Using...
were covered in cedar and cypress forests. And during the evolution of life on the Earth, it was the colonization of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy. The converse is also true. The more vegetation we lose, the more that's likely to exacerbate climate change
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.
Video examples
50 Years Ago, This Was a...
telling you I'm going to show you the greatest conservation tool ever made and everything I talked about could not have happened without grass the hill country is discovered with woody species primarily it's cedar we took out a great
Video examples
The rise and fall of the...
The greatest trophy a Celtic warrior could possess was the severed head of a foe. They preserved these heads in jars of cedar oil and showed them to guests who visited their homes. Celtic warriors were so valued in the ancient world
Video examples
The de-extinction of...
through second arrows at that where we are now Vancouver harbour it was living in the forest canopy was an entirely different world and tree Ranger nature's way of digitizing time so this piece of cedar from the treehouse spans five
Video examples
How to make a mummy -...
and formed hard brown clumps. The corpse wasn't putrid, but it didn't exactly smell good, either. So, priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, massaged it with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil,
Video examples
How trees talk to each...
paper birch, Douglas fir, and western red cedar. I figured the birch and the fir would be connected in a belowground web, but not the cedar. It was in its own other world. And I gathered my apparatus,
Video examples
The rise and fall of...
importing gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and cedar wood. Trade was the unlikely impetus for the invention of the world’s first writing system. It started as a system of accounting for Sumerian merchants
Video examples
Screaming Mummy Mystery...
expensive cedar wood but it was blank totally unadorned in Egyptian theology a man couldn't enter the afterlife without his name so there's something disturbing about the fact that he was left
Video examples
Best Of Frogs PIPE Top 5 PIPE...
yakishima cedars like mighty pillars dominating the canopy the ancient cedars found on this island some of the most fascinating trees in the world they look as if they've been sculpted by
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Quote examples
Ethan Canin
American Author
In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.
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William Henry Ashley
American Businessman
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
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Hamlin Garland
American Novelist
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Robert Fortune
Scottish Scientist
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
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William Henry Ashley
American Businessman
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
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Dave Sitek
American Musician
My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.
Quote examples
Ethan Canin
American Author
In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.
Quote examples
William Henry Ashley
American Businessman
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
Quote examples
Hamlin Garland
American Novelist
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Quote examples
Robert Fortune
Scottish Scientist
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Quote examples
William Henry Ashley
American Businessman
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
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Dave Sitek
American Musician
My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.
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