| Noun | 1. | pencil cedar tree - any of several junipers with wood suitable for making pencils pencil cedar - wood of a pencil cedar tree; used for making pencils genus Juniperus, Juniperus - junipers juniper - coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, red juniper, red cedar - small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles Bermuda cedar, Juniperus bermudiana - ornamental densely pyramidal juniper of Bermuda; fairly large for a juniper east African cedar, Juniperus procera - tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood |