white cedar

Noun

• slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae

• small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  southern white cedar , coast white cedar , Atlantic white cedar , white cypress , Chamaecyparis thyoides , American arborvitae , northern white cedar , Thuja occidentalis