Cedrous

Quick meaning: Cedrous is an adjective meaning Of, or relating to, trees in the genus Cedrus of the plant family Pinaceae.

Meaning

Of, or relating to, trees in the genus Cedrus of the plant family Pinaceae.

Example Sentences

Visitors to the famous arboretum at Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, may care to be reminded that there is an attractive middle-aged group of this non-cedrous cedar there.

Of cedrous trees and sapphire blocks built high, whereon are graved, by deft and loving hands, true likenesses of all who therein keep their standards; it is full of winding ways.

The cedars of shingles and the familiar wooden houses is yet another non-cedrous species, Thuya plicala — much nearer to a cypress than a cedar and quite different from the Thuya of antique veneers.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cupressoid, cupressaceous, arboraceous, arboreal, quercous, dioscoraceous.

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