Definitions for: Thuja


[n] red cedar



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: genus 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

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