Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tall cedar (Cedrus deodara) native to the Himalaya Mountains and having drooping branches and dark bluish-green leaves, often with white, light green, or yellow new growth in cultivars. It is an important timber tree in India.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a name given to different trees, principally of the natural order Coniferæ, when growing at some place held sacred by the Hindus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Cedrus deodara, a type of
cedar tree native to the western Himalayas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the entrance are large stores of timber, principally deodar, which is floated down from the Lolab, stored at Dubgam, and sent thence down country and otherwhere for sale.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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The pass was crowned with dense, dark forest -- deodar, walnut, wild cherry, wild olive, and wild pear, but mostly deodar, which is the Himalayan cedar; and under the shadow of the deodars stood a deserted shrine to Kali -- who is Durga, who is Sitala, who is sometimes worshipped against the smallpox.
The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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That was a sign of heavy rain in the foot-hills and beyond, for the deodar is a strong tree, not easily shaken from the hillsides.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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That was a sign of heavy rain In the foot-hills and beyond, for the deodar is a strong tree, not easily shaken from the hillsides.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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Mexicans were born here, among the smoky bouquets of the toyon shrub, made love on hills of elderberry, honeysuckle, and fistfuls of lilac fiesta flowers, married each other by a ring of deodar cedars, grew old walking the long, open fields of sage scrub and giant wild rye, and died in ancient forests of pine and eucalyptus.
The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010
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The carved-deodar windows and doors of the gable-roofed row houses on each side of the alley are shut.
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The walking trails are superb with tall pines and majestic deodar and spectacular views of the brilliant Himalayas.
A Guide To Shimla Paulina 2009
hernesheir commented on the word deodar
cf. Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling.
January 4, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word deodar
"As evening drew in, we turned a bend and caught a first glimpse of Simla's bungalows and country houses rising up from among the deodars of the ridge."
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple, p 315
July 16, 2014