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deodar

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de·o·dar  (d-där) or de·o·dar·a (-där)
n.
A tall cedar (Cedrus deodara) native to the Himalaya Mountains and having drooping branches and dark bluish-green leaves, often with white, light green, or yellow new growth in cultivars. It is an important timber tree in India.
[Hindi deodr, from Sanskrit devadru : deva-, divine; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots + dru, wood; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
deodar
Noun
a Himalayan cedar with drooping branches [Hindi]
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Noun1.deodar - tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber
Cedrus deodara, deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar
true cedar, cedar tree, cedar - any cedar of the genus Cedrus


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He further increased his revenues by selling timber to the railway companies, for he would cut the great deodar trees in his own forest arid they fell thundering into the Sutlej River and were swept down to the Plains, 300 miles away, and became railway ties.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
The pass was crowned with dense, dark forest--deodar, walnut, wild cherry, wild olive, and wild pear, but mostly deodar, which is the Himalayan cedar; and under the shadow of the deodars stood a deserted shrine to Kali--who is Durga, who is Sitala, who is sometimes worshipped against the smallpox.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
One of the young men of fashion - he who was found dead at the bottom of a well on the night of the earthquake had once given him a complete suit of Hindu kit, the costume of a lowcaste street boy, and Kim stored it in a secret place under some baulks in Nila Ram's timber-yard, beyond the Punjab High Court, where the fragrant deodar logs lie seasoning after they have driven down the Ravi.
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