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thuja

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thu=ja

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun thuja has 1 sense

thuja(n = noun.plant) genus thuja - red cedar; Array

is a kind of gymnosperm genus

is a member of cupressaceae, cypress family, family cupressaceae

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CIDE DICTIONARY

thuja, n. [NL., from Gr. an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.].

A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [1913 Webster]

" Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitæ of the Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

thuja, n. (also thuya) any evergreen coniferous tree of the genus Thuja, with small leaves closely pressed to the branches; arbor vitae.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk thuia, an Afr. tree

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