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CEDARWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests

Synonyms:

cedar; cedarwood

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cedarwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cedarwood"):

red cedar (fragrant reddish wood of any of various red cedar trees)

Port Orford cedar (the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree)

Holonyms ("cedarwood" is a substance of...):

cedar; cedar tree; true cedar (any cedar of the genus Cedrus)

cedar; cedar tree (any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars)

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