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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Native name, fr. Skr.

dēvadāru

, prop., timber of the gods.]

(Bot.)

A kind of cedar (

Cedrus Deodara

), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

deodar

deodar ‎(plural deodars)

Cedrus deodara, a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas.
- 1888: There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Cupid's Arrows’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 47)

Cedrus deodara