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white cedar

noun

1. small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

• Syn: ↑American arborvitae, ↑northern white cedar, ↑Thuja occidentalis

• Hypernyms: ↑arborvitae

• Member Holonyms: ↑Thuja, ↑genus Thuja

2. slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae

• Syn: ↑southern white cedar, ↑coast white cedar, ↑Atlantic white cedar, ↑white cypress, ↑Chamaecyparis thyoides

• Hypernyms: ↑cedar, ↑cedar tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Chamaecyparis, ↑genus Chamaecyparis

Useful english dictionary. 2012.