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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.