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Yellow cedar   /jˈɛloʊ sˈidər/   Listen
Yellow cedar

noun
1.
Tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament.  Synonyms: Alaska cedar, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Nootka cypress, yellow cypress.






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... are very great,—the trees growing to a good height on the mountain sides as far as two thousand feet above the tide level. The timber is of the character generally found in Northern climates: yellow cedar of durable quality, spruce, larch, fir of great size, and hemlock. In the world's rapid and wasteful consumption of wood, the forests of Alaska will prove not merely a substantial resource for the interests of the future, but a treasure-house ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine



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