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CEDAR

Volume 4 · 42 words · 1797 Edition

in botany. See Juniperus and Pinus.

The species of cedar famous for its duration, is that popularly called by us the cedar of Lebanon (Pinus cedrus), by the ancients *cedrus magna*, or the great cedar; also *cedrela*, *kidjara*. See the article Pinus.