stinking cedar

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   rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed

   Synonymsstinking yewTorrey treeTorreya taxifolia

   Broaderyew

   Part ofTorreya

Questions about stinking cedar

What does stinking cedar mean?

stinking cedar means "rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed".

What is another word for stinking cedar?

Close synonyms include stinking yew, Torrey tree, Torreya taxifolia. 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 stinking cedar a common word?

stinking 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.