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Thuja n. (Written also thuya) (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. See Thyine wood. Note: Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitae of the Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of North-western America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and Araucarian type we mark the first appearance in this system, in at least Scotland, of the genus Thuja. One of the Helmsdale plants of this genus closely resembles the common Arbor Vitae (Thuja occidentalis) of our gardens and shrubberies. It exhibits the same numerous slim, thick-clustered branchlets, covered over by the same minute, sessile, scale-like leaves; and ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

Words linked to "Thuja" : Platycladus orientalis, white cedar, red cedar, family Cupressaceae, cypress family, Cupressaceae, Oriental arborvitae, northern white cedar, western red cedar, genus Thuja, American arborvitae, canoe cedar, Thuja orientalis, Thuja occidentalis