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Thuja

Thuja Meaning & Definition
Thuja Definition And Meaning

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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