Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coniferous plants of the family Pinaceæ and tribe Taxoideæ, technically distinguished from
Taxodium by the manifest toothed inner scales of the cones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
tree of the genusCryptomeria , especially the Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Japanese cedar; sugi
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She came home with something called a cryptomeria, a live cedar with foliage like feathers growing in spirals, nothing like a traditional Christmas tree.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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She came home with something called a cryptomeria, a live cedar with foliage like feathers growing in spirals, nothing like a traditional Christmas tree.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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She came home with something called a cryptomeria, a live cedar with foliage like feathers growing in spirals, nothing like a traditional Christmas tree.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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Two that come to mind are Yoshino cryptomeria C. japonica 'Yoshino' and green giant arborvitae.
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The cryptomeria now loomed over her garden of gloom.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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The cryptomeria now loomed over her garden of gloom.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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Here an earthquake (prophetic as it turned out) overtook us one hot break of dawn, and we fled out into the garden, where a tall cryptomeria waggled its insane head back and forth with an ‘I told you so’ expression; though not a breath was stirring.
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The cryptomeria now loomed over her garden of gloom.
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood ...
Sheldon Drobny: God Damn America's Media: Rev. Wright's Comment On Hiroshima 2008
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I remember suggesting that a satisfactory place for such a demonstration would be a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo.
Sheldon Drobny: God Damn America's Media: Rev. Wright's Comment On Hiroshima 2008
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