deodar
a large Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara, yielding a durable wood.
Origin of deodar
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How to use deodar in a sentence
Some way below our house there stretched a spur thickly wooded with Deodars.
My Reminiscences | Rabindranath TagoreBeside it two great deodars spread their canopies, and there a woman sat in a low chair, a girl beside her reading aloud.
The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories | L. Adams BeckAbout it stood great deodars, clothed in clouds of the white blossoming clematis, ghostly and still.
The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories | L. Adams BeckNearly all day she would lie in her chair under the deodars by the delicate splash and ripple of the stream.
The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories | L. Adams BeckShe stood radiant beneath the deodars, a figure of Hope, pointing steadily to the heights.
The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories | L. Adams Beck
British Dictionary definitions for deodar
/ (ˈdiːəʊˌdɑː) /
a Himalayan cedar, Cedrus deodara, with drooping branches
the durable fragrant highly valued wood of this tree
Origin of deodar
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