Crossword clues for deodar
deodar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deodar \De`o*dar"\, n. [Native name, fr. Skr. d[=e]vad[=a]ru, prop., timber of the gods.] (Bot.) A kind of cedar ( Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.
Wiktionary
n. ''Cedrus deodara'', a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas.
WordNet
n. tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber [syn: deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara]
Wikipedia
Deodar may refer to:
- Cedrus deodara, tree from India known for Christmas-tree shape
- Deodar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
- Diyodar, a town in Gujarat, India
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Deodar assembly constituency is one of the 182 assembly constituencies of Gujarat. It is located in Banaskantha District.
Usage examples of "deodar".
The thin air here smelled of wood smoke instead of dung fires, and the sharp green aroma of deodar was intoxicating.
A mountain of immense deodar logs had been built outside of the town, and on its peak sat a lone monkey, looking very cold.
A large and handsome evergreen tree he recognized as a deodar, native to the Himalayas.
In one spot, where a clump of deodar pines stood, the wall was shifting as the pines expanded outward.
There were deodars, Douglas firs, casuarinas, gum trees, eucalypti, hibiscus, cedars, and other trees, generally of a moderate size, for their number prevented their growth.
The driveway wound among deodars and rhodopods, past banks of purple daisies, white chanterbells, scarlet trangles.
It was after they had cared for the Gul Moti with the best they had--water from a mountain stream and food Neela Deo had carried, in a shelter made of tender deodar tips, where she now slept on a bed made of the same--that the mahouts told the Chief Commissioner and Skag, all they themselves had seen.
Deodars, Douglas firs, casuarinas, banksias, gum-trees, dragon-trees, and other well-known species, succeeded each other far as the eye could reach.
Enormous deodar cedars with layers of drooping branches surrounded the place, and usually they seemed sheltering, but now they loomed, ominous.
Looked around, admired the mansions, the massive deodar cedars, the grassy, tree-shrouded turnarounds that slowed traffic and gave the neighborhood character.
There were deodars, Douglas firs, casuarinas, gum-trees, eucalypti, hibiscus, cedars, and other trees, generally of a moderate size, for their number prevented their growth.
A road that was little more than a track rose, fell, writhed through a darkness of deodars and gnarly wild fruit trees where langurs scampered.