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Deodar

noun
1.
Tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber.  Synonyms: Cedrus deodara, deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar.






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... thousand be, And Yama's sons(733) attend on thee. With dauntless courage, strength, and skill Search every river, wood, and hill. Through every land in order go Right onward to the Hills of Snow. Search mid the peaks that shine afar, In woods of Lodh and Deodar.(734) Search if with Janak's daughter, screened By sheltering rocks, there lie the fiend. The holy grounds of Soma tread By Gods and minstrels visited. Reach Kala's mount, and flats that lie Among the peaks that tower on high. Then leave that hill ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... Wald, pp. 256, 289, 324. A similar confusion in the names of this family of trees exists in India. Dr. Cleghorn, Inspector-General of the Indian Forests, informs us in his official Circular No. 2, that the name of deodar is applied in some provinces to a cypress, in some to a cedar, and in others to a juniper. If it were certain that the abies of Caesar was the fir formerly and still found in peat-mosses, and that he was right in denying the existence of the beech ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh



Words linked to "Deodar" :   cedar, Himalayan cedar, true cedar, cedar tree, deodar cedar



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