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Atlas cedar

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Atlas cedar
n.
A northern African evergreen tree (Cedrus atlantica), having green to silvery-blue foliage and widely grown as an ornamental.

[After the Atlas Mountains.]
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Noun1.Atlas cedar - tall Algerian evergreen of Atlas mountains with blue-green leavesAtlas cedar - tall Algerian evergreen of Atlas mountains with blue-green leaves; widely planted as an ornamental
true cedar, cedar tree, cedar - any cedar of the genus Cedrus


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Alex's granddad planted three young Blue Atlas cedars at Lijssenthoek in 1923, one of which forms a magnificent backdrop to the Stone of Remembrance.
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