northern white cedar

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   small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

   SynonymsAmerican arborvitaewhite cedarThuja occidentalis

   Broaderarborvitae

   Part ofThuja

Questions about northern white cedar

What does northern white cedar mean?

northern white cedar means "small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets".

What is another word for northern white cedar?

Close synonyms include American arborvitae, white cedar, Thuja occidentalis. 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 northern white cedar a common word?

northern white 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.