incense cedar

English

Noun

incense cedar (plural incense cedars)

1. Any of the species of coniferous trees of the genus Calocedrus, with fragrant wood.
   • 1911, John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra‎^[1]:

     Another conifer was met to-day,—incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), a large tree with warm yellow-green foliage in flat plumes like those of arborvitæ, bark cinnamon-colored, and as the boles of the old trees are without limbs they make striking pillars in the woods where the sun chances to shine on them—a worthy companion of the kingly sugar and yellow pines.