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Webster 1913 Edition


Thuya

Thu′ya

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
Same as
Thuja
.

Definition 2024


Thuya

Thuya

See also: thuya

Translingual

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Thuya f

  1. Alternative form of Thuja

See also

thuya

thuya

See also: Thuya

English

Wikispecies

Noun

thuya (plural thuyas)

  1. Any member of the genus Thuya.
    • 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, VIII:
      Thuya, Ara, or Sandrac-tree, is probably the Arbor vitæ of Theophrastus: it is similar in leaf to the juniper, and, besides producing the gum sandrac, the wood is invaluable [...].