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/ɪnsˈɛns sˈidər/ Listen

Incense cedar

noun

Any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood.

Tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark. Synonyms: Calocedrus decurrens, Libocedrus decurrens, red cedar.

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"Incense cedar" Quotes from Famous Books

... great nobles, but with them are millions of lesser courtiers, the incense cedar from whose buttressed, tapering trunks spring countless branches tipped with fan-like plumes; many lesser conifers; the splendid Pacific birches in picturesque pose; the oaks of many kinds far different from their eastern cousins. And among the feet of these courtiers of higher degree ...

— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard

... Incense cedar plays an important role in modern peyote meetings. It is dried and thrown into the fire to create a fragment smoke which is considered beneficial. Meeting officials fan it into the atmosphere and "rub" themselves in the smoke to obtain power or purification. ...

— Washo Religion • James F. Downs