cedar

cedar

1. any Old World coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus, having spreading branches, needle-like evergreen leaves, and erect barrel-shaped cones: family Pinaceae See also cedar of Lebanon deodar

2. any of various other conifers, such as the red cedars and white cedars

3. the wood of any of these trees

4. any of certain other plants, such as the Spanish cedar

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cedar

A highly aromatic, moderately high-density, fine-textured wood of a distinctive red color with white streaks; widely used for fence posts, shingles, and mothproof closet linings. See also: Wood

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cedar

cedar

Looks like juniper. (dry mealy blue-green berries almost all stone, little flesh. Juniper berries have 3-7 stones, whereas cedar has one large stone). Grows 10-20 feet high and wide. Bark is shaggy and soft. Chew cedar leaves to clean teeth. Cedar berries help diabetics cut down on insulin. (helps pancreas) Berries also used to expel worms, fight colds, coughs, rheumatism, yeast, fungus, anti-tumor activity. Leaf branches used for fungus, worms, lung problems like asthma and bronchitis, prostate urinary issues, herpes. Antiseptic expectorant. Indians used it in sweat lodges for arthritis and rheumatism. Do not take internally if pregnant. Contains podophyllotoxin, used for cancer. May be toxic in high amounts. Do not take cedar oil internally.

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cedar

[′sē·dər]

(botany)

The common name for a large number of evergreen trees in the order Pinales having fragrant, durable wood.

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cedar

A durable softwood generally noted for decay resistance; includes western red cedar, incense cedar, eastern red cedar.

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cedar

symbol of everlasting life. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 301]

See: Immortality

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Cedar

A superset of Mesa, from Xerox PARC, adding garbage collection, dynamic types and a universal pointer type (REF ANY). Cedar is a large complex language designed for custom Xerox hardware and the Cedar operating system/environment. Data types are atoms, lists, ropes ("industrial strength" strings), conditions. Multi-processing features include threads, monitors, signals and catch phrases. It was used to develop the Cedar integrated programming environment.

["A Description of the Cedar Language", Butler Lampson, Xerox PARC, CSL-83-15 (Dec 1983)].

["The Structure of Cedar", D. Swinehart et al, SIGPLAN Notices 20(7):230-244 (July 1985)].

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cedar

 

(Cedrus), a genus of coniferous evergreen trees of the family Pinaceae. The trunk is 25–50 m high, with a dark gray, dehiscent, and scaly bark. The crown is spreading and pyramidal or umbrelled (on old trees). The evergreen leaves are acicular, trihedral or tetrahedral, stiff, and spiny; they range in color from dark green and blue-green to silver-gray. The leaves are in fascicles of 30–40 on short shoots (pulvini) or spirally arranged and single on long shoots. The cedar blossoms in the fall. The anther spikelets are individual and surrounded by groups of leaves; the pollen has sacs. The cones are individual, erect, barrel-shaped or ovid, and elongated (length, 5–10 cm; width, 4–6 cm); they mature and fall in the second or third year. The seed-bearing scales are imbricate, appressed, and shaped like broad kidneys. The seeds are resinous, 12–18 mm long, triangular, and winged; they are not edible. The cedar has a surface root system.

Cedars grow on mountains at altitudes of 1,300–3,600 m, forming cedar forests with fir, spruce, pine, oak, and four other species of trees. The Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) is found in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa. The cedar of Lebanon (C. libani) grows in Lebanon and Syria and on the Cilician Taurus in Asia Minor. The Cyprian cedar (C. brevifolia) is found on Cyprus; the deodar (C. deodard) in the Western Himalayas. The wood is yellowish or reddish, fragrant, and resistant to fungus and insect damage.

Cedar trees are cultivated in parks. The blue and silver varieties are particularly valuable. In the USSR cedars, most frequently the Atlas and deodar, are cultivated as ornamentals in the Crimea, Caucasus, and southern Middle Asia. The Atlas is 40 m high and has a pyramidal crown of bluish green, grayish silver, or, less commonly, green needles. The needles measure less than 2.5 cm long. The deodar is 50 m high, with a pyramidal crown and light gray-green slender needles. The needles are 2.5–5.0 cm long.

Several species of pine (for example, the nut pines) and the incense cedars of the coniferous genus Libocedrus of the family Cupressaceae are incorrectly called cedars. Six species of incense cedar are found in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and southern Chile; two species, L. chilensis and L. decurens, are cultivated in the Crimea and Transcaucasia. Several other species of trees are sometimes called cedar. An American juniper, Juniperus virginiana, is also known as the eastern-red cedar. The American arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) is sometimes called the white cedar.

REFERENCES

Derev’ia i kustarniki SSSR, vol. 1. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.
Walter, H. Die Vegetation der Erde in öko-physiologischen Betrachtung, vol. 2. Jena, 1968.

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