cedar

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several Eurasian evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae, having stiff needles on short shoots and large erect seed cones with broad deciduous scales, and including the cedar of Lebanon.
• noun Any of several other evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs, especially members of the family Cupressaceae such as the Alaska cedar, incense cedar, or red cedar.
• noun The durable aromatic wood of any of these plants, especially that of the red cedar, often used to make chests.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A tree of the coniferous genus Cedrus, of which three species are known.
• noun The name given, usually with qualifying terms, to various coniferous trees, chiefly North American, and of genera nearly allied to Cedrus.
• noun A name popularly given in tropical regions to a considerable number of trees, mostly of the natural order Meliaceæ, in no way related to the preceding.
• noun The wood of the cedar-tree (Cedrus), or (with or without a qualifying term) of any kind of tree called a cedar.
• Pertaining to the cedar; made of cedar: as, a cedar twig.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to cedar.
• noun (Bot.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the coniferous plant family Pinaceae.
• noun uncountable The aromatic wood from such a tree.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests
• noun any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars
• noun any cedar of the genus Cedrus