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



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