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Webster 1913 Edition
Thuja
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Thu′ja
(thū′jȧ)
, Noun.
[NL., from Gr.
θυία
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
See thuya
.] Thyine wood
.☞ of the Eastern and Northern United States.
Thuja occidentalis
is the Arbor vitae
Thuja gigantea
of North-western America is a very large tree, there called red cedar
, and canoe cedar
, and furnishes a useful timber. Definition 2024
Thuja
Thuja
See also: thuja
Translingual
Thuja occidentalis, the arborvitae.
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Thuja f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Cupressaceae – coniferous trees in the cypress family.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Tracheophyta - phylum; Pinophyta - division; Pinopsida - class; Pinales - order; Cupressaceae - family; Cupressoideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Thuja koraiensis, Thuja occidentalis, Thuja plicata, Thuja standishii, Thuja sutchuenensis - species
Translations
Thuja, a genus of trees
