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Port Orford cedar

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A tall evergreen coniferous tree (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) native to southwest Oregon and northwest California, having reddish-brown bark and drooping branches with scalelike leaves.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Chamæcyparis, and ginger-pine (under pine).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree
  • noun large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Port Orford, a town of southwest Oregon.]

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