About The Word Thuja
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Thuja
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What's The Definition Of Thuja?
[n] red cedar
Synonyms | Synonyms for Thuja: genus Thuja Related Terms | Find terms related to Thuja: 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 Thuja In Webster's Dictionary \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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