thuja oil — noun : a fragrant essential oil obtained from the leaves and twigs of arborvitae and used chiefly in scenting shoe polishes, floor waxes, and other technical preparations called also cedarleaf oil … Useful english dictionary
Thuja — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Thuja gigantea — Thuja 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Thuja occidentalis — Thuja 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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Thuja occidentalis — foliage and cones Conservation status … Wikipedia
oil of thuja — oil of thuja, an aromatic oil of an American species of thuja, used in medicine and in polishes … Useful english dictionary
Thuja — Taxobox name = Thuja image width = 240px image caption = Thuja standishii foliage and cones regnum = Plantae divisio = Pinophyta classis = Pinopsida ordo = Pinales familia = Cupressaceae genus = Thuja genus authority = L. subdivision ranks =… … Wikipedia
thuja — The fresh tops of T. occidentalis (family Pinaceae), an ornamental evergreen tree of eastern North America, a source of cedar leaf oil; has been used internally as an expectorant, emmenagogue, and anthelmintic, and externally as a mild… … Medical dictionary
cedar leaf oil — Oil obtained by steam distillation from the fresh leaves of Thuja occidentalis; used as an insect repellent and counterirritant, and in perfumery. SYN: thuja oil … Medical dictionary
thuja — /ˈθjudʒə/ (say thyoohjuh) noun any of the evergreen coniferous trees constituting the genus Thuja, especially T. occidentalis, the common arbor vitae, which yields an aromatic oil. {New Latin, from Greek thyia African tree} …
