Meaning of THUJA
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| | Definition: | | [n] red cedar |
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| | Synonyms: | | genus Thuja |
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| | See Also: | | American arborvitae, canoe cedar, Cupressaceae, cypress family, family Cupressaceae, gymnosperm genus, northern white cedar, Oriental arborvitae, Platycladus orientalis, red cedar, Thuja occidentalis, Thuja orientalis, Thuja plicata, western red cedar, white cedar | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Thu"ja\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? an African tree with
sweet-smelling wood.] (Bot.)
A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for
the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having
scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written
also {thuya}.] See {Thyine wood}.
Note: {Thuja occidentalis} is the {Arbor vit[ae]} of the
Eastern and Northern United States. {T. gigantea} of
North-waetern America is a very large tree, there
called {red cedar}, and {canoe cedar}, and furnishes a
useful timber.
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