You're stretching, here. It's obvious the distinguishing characteristic of the Cedar tree is its size, not its shape. The normal inference to anyone painting the analogy would be size.
If I were to say a tail like a Redwood, there's no way you would think I was describing something straight and red with a green tuft at the end. You'd immediately visualize something massive and huge.
True, except that is the single characteristic, out of several, that points to "dinosaur" rather than "hippo".
The Occam's razor answer is that it's a hippo, as there are no other references in the Bible to dinosaurs. There were none alive during the era encompassed by Biblical stories. And peoples of the middle east had no archaeological knowledge to base such a story upon. But they DID have knowledge of the hippo.
It's a hippo.