red cedar

Definition

A juniper of species (Juniperus virginiana) native to North America and highly prized for its fragrant wood.

Example Sentences

• "1892, Walt Whitman, "Our Old Feuillage" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), Modern Library, 1921, p. 147, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat, […]"
• "She was a West Coast canoe—dug out of a great red cedar tree."