red cedar

Questions about red cedar

What does red cedar mean?

red cedar means "large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red cedar?

Close synonyms include western red cedar, canoe cedar, Thuja plicata, eastern red cedar, red juniper. 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 red cedar a common word?

red cedar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.