Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tall evergreen coniferous tree (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) native to southwest Oregon and northwest California, having reddish-brown bark and drooping branches with scalelike leaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Chamæcyparis , and ginger-pine (under pine).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the wood of the Port Orford cedar tree
- noun large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Port Orford, a town of southwest Oregon.]
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