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incense cedar

[ in-sens see-der ]

noun

  1. a tree of the cypress family’s genus Calocedrus, especially C. decurrens California incense cedar of western North America, which may grow to more than 190 feet (58 meters) in height.
  2. the aromatic, close-grained wood of this tree, used to make pencils, chests, closet linings, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of incense cedar1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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The remainder were sugar pine, noble fir, red fir, incense cedar, western red cedar, mountain hemlock and western hemlock.

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Conditions favored shade-tolerant trees — white fir, red fir and incense cedar — that prefer dense, closed canopies.

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I had to content myself with watching a YouTube video featuring another of Stenmo’s favorite trees, an incense cedar that he loves to eat lunch with his back against as he listens to woodpeckers.

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Several teams recently converged at Blodgett Forest Research Station northeast of Sacramento, an area thick with towering Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and incense cedar.

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As she trudged past the remnant of a felled incense cedar, Cicely Muldoon, the superintendent of the park, acknowledged that the notion of cutting trees in Yosemite could be hard to explain to the public.

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