incense cedar

Questions about incense cedar

What does incense cedar mean?

incense cedar means "any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for incense cedar?

Close synonyms include red cedar, Calocedrus decurrens, Libocedrus decurrens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is incense cedar a common word?

incense cedar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.