pencil cedar

Questions about pencil cedar

What does pencil cedar mean?

pencil cedar means "any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for pencil cedar?

Close synonyms include pencil cedar tree. 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 pencil cedar a common word?

pencil 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.