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pencil cedar
noun
- the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, or its wood.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pencil cedar1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
Its wood has a beautiful grain, a fine mahogany colour, and a remarkably pleasant scent, a good deal resembling that of the pencil cedar, but stronger, and I think more agreeable.
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Pine, white pine, called she-pine in Queensland; native deal, pencil cedar.
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In the bleak uplands beyond the Himálaya tree-growth is very scanty, but in favoured localities willows and the pencil cedar, Juniperus pseudosabina, are found.
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Humidity, vegetation, and beauty reappear together, wild flowers and ferns abound, and pencil cedars in clumps rise above the artificial plantations of the valley.
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