Definition of Genus Cedrela

1. Noun. Tropical American trees.

Exact synonyms: Cedrela
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Meliaceae, Mahogany Family, Meliaceae
Member holonyms: Cedrela Odorata, Spanish Cedar, Spanish Cedar Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cedrela

genus Catananche
genus Catasetum
genus Catha
genus Catharacta
genus Catharanthus
genus Cathartes
genus Cathaya
genus Catoptrophorus
genus Catostomus
genus Cattleya
genus Caulophyllum
genus Cavia
genus Cebuella
genus Cebus
genus Cecropia
genus Cedrela (current term)
genus Cedrus
genus Ceiba
genus Celastrus
genus Celosia
genus Celtis
genus Cenchrus
genus Centaurea
genus Centaurium
genus Centranthus
genus Centrocercus
genus Centrolobium
genus Centropomus
genus Centropristis
genus Centropus

Literary usage of Genus Cedrela

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"This has furnished two fossil species described by Engelhardt from the early Tertiary (Eocene or Oligo- cene) of Chili. The genus Cedrela, sometimes made ..."

2. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1897)
"It is not a coniferous tree, as is sometimes stated, but belongs to the order Meliaceae and the genus Cedrela. I have had specimens of a Cedrela from the ..."

3. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"... of the West Indies, and the genus Cedrela, which is represented in the tropics of both hemispheres by valuable timber- yielding species. ..."

4. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"It was not unnatural, perhaps, that the word Cedar should also be applied to certain fragrant woods yielded by the genus Cedrela and its allies, ..."

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