japanese cedar

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   tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood

   SynonymsJapan cedarsugiCryptomeria japonica

   Broadercedar

   Part ofCryptomeria

Questions about japanese cedar

What does japanese cedar mean?

japanese cedar means "tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood".

What is another word for japanese cedar?

Close synonyms include Japan cedar, sugi, Cryptomeria japonica. 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 japanese cedar a common word?

japanese cedar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.