port orford cedar

1. 1.

   the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree

   Broadercedar
2. 2.

   large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet

   SynonymsOregon cedarLawson's cypressLawson's cedarChamaecyparis lawsoniana

   Broadercedar

   Part ofChamaecyparis

Questions about port orford cedar

What does port orford cedar mean?

port orford cedar means "the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for port orford cedar?

Close synonyms include Oregon cedar, Lawson's cypress, Lawson's cedar, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana. 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 port orford cedar a common word?

port orford 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.