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κέδρος , ἡ,
A.cedar-tree, “ὀδμὴ κέδρου . . θύου τ᾽ ἀνὰ νῆσον ὀδώδει δαιομένων” Od.5.60; “τὸ ἀπὸ κ. ἄλειφαρ γινόμενον” Hdt.2.87, cf.4.75; applied to prickly cedar, Juniperus Oxycedrus, Od.l.c., Thphr.HP3.12.3; Syrian cedar, J. excelsa, ib.3.2.6, Dsc.1.77; Phoenician cedar, J. phoenicea, Thphr.HP9.2.3; Himalayan cedar, J. macropoda, Str.15.1.29; κ. μικρά juniper, J. communis, Dsc.l.c.
2. anything made of cedar- wood: cedar coffin, E.Alc.365 (pl.), Tr.1141; cedar box, for a bee- hive, Theoc.7.81.
3. cedar-oil, “τῇ κ. ἀλείφειν” Luc.Ind.16.
4. v. κέδρον1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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