Wiktionary
n. Any of the four species of coniferous trees of the genus (taxlink Calocedrus genus noshow=1).
WordNet
n. any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood
tall tree of the Pacific coast of North America having foliage like cypress and cinnamon-red bark [syn: red cedar, Calocedrus decurrens, Libocedrus decurrens]
Usage examples of "incense cedar".
The incense cedar tree is itself entirely unaffected by insect pests.
The cabin was high up on the side of the mountain, against a thick growth of digger pine, oak and incense cedar.
She knew enough to be surprised that incense cedar and yellow-wood grew side by side, that a strawberry was still in flower.
In memories that now unfolded like incredibly elaborate origami sculptures, I saw the rising ramparts of the Siskiyous, forested with her on her of enormous Sitka spruce, with scattered Brewer's spruce (the most beautiful of all the conifers), Lawson cypress, Douglas fir, tangerine-scented white fir that was rivaled in aromatic influence only by the tufted incense cedar, dogwood with no scent but with brilliant leaves, big-leaf maple, pendulous western maple, neat ranks of dark-green Sadler oak, and even in the faded light of memory that scene took my breath away.
A narrow steel footbridge crossed the ravine to a clearing and a log cabin hidden among towering ponderosa pine and incense cedar.
The fragrance of incense cedar told him that it was Cassandra who had come so quietly into Ariane's room.