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Cedar

The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

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Conifer 76% connected

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Deodar 76% connected

A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an…

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Kawaka 76% connected

a New Zealand tree, the Cypress cedar (Libocedrus Doniana), having a valuable, fine-grained, reddish wood.

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Amber tree unknown · 78% connection

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

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Appellative noun · 78% connection

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

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Basswood noun · 78% connection

any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant fl…

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Boldu noun · 78% connection

A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine…

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Briar noun · 78% connection

evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make toba…

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Brier noun · 78% connection

evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make toba…

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Camellia noun · 78% connection

any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

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Citrus noun · 78% connection

any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for…

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Consistency noun · 78% connection

Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

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Cypress noun · 78% connection

A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

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Daphne noun · 78% connection

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

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Dipterocarpus noun · 78% connection

A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two l…

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Durableness noun · 78% connection

Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.

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Frankincense noun · 78% connection

A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come…

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Furze noun · 78% connection

very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

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Gorse noun · 78% connection

very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

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Ironwood noun · 78% connection

handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very…

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Jacaranda noun · 78% connection

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet woo…

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