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thuja


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thuja  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Thuja 
  n  :  red  cedar  [syn:  {Thuja},  {genus  Thuja}] 




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