cedar

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The breaking of the cedar was a visible outward fragment of a distant and mysterious encounter that was coming daily closer to them both.

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  1. noun Any of several Old World evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having stiff needles on short shoots and large erect seed cones with broad deciduous scales.
  2. noun Any of several other evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs, such as the Alaska cedar, incense cedar, or red cedar.
  3. noun The durable aromatic wood of any of these plants, especially that of the red cedar, often used to make chests.

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  • It is difficult to conceive anything better of its kind than a lily or a cedar, an ant or an ant-eater. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • Only the cedar, the pine, the spruce, the holly, and the laurel were awake all seven nights. —  Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
  • Almost before he could unclasp his arm from the cedar, the first spray of gaunt, exhausted, bleeding men came over and down into the sunken lane. —  The Long Roll
  • Remember you the woman and the child, whom, in the midst of that burning desert, we found sitting, more dead than alive, at the roots of a cedar--the wife, as we afterwards found, of Hassan the camel-driver--and how that child, the living resemblance of my dead Joseph, wound itself round my heart, and how I implored the mother to trust it to me as mine, and I would make it richer than the richest of Ecbatana We remember it all well Well, rejoice with me! —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
  • A few moments later I hailed her from under my cedar, and after glancing up and down the street to see if anyone was watching, she joined me there It was very dark. —  We Three
 

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  1. Middle English cedre, from Old French, from Latin cedrus, from Greek kedros.

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  1. Early modern English also ceder, from Middle English ceder, cedre, from Old French cedre, French cèdre = Provencal cedre = Spanish Portuguese Italian cedro = Anglo-Saxon ceder (also in comp. ceder-beám, ceder-treów, cedar-tree) = Dutch ceder = Middle High German cēder, zēder, German ceder, zeder = Swedish Danish ceder = Bohemian cedr = Polish cedr, cedar, from Latin cedrus = Russian kedrŭ, cedar, = Polish keder, kieder, a kind of larch, from Greek κέδρος, a cedar-tree. Theophrastus uses the word both for the Cedrus Libani of Syria and (as also prob. Homer) for the juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus).
 

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