- thuya
- 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 leaves. [Written
also {thuya}.] See {Thyine wood}.
[1913 Webster]
Note: {Thuja occidentalis} is the {Arbor vit[ae]} of the Eastern and Northern United States. {Thuja gigantea} of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called {red cedar}, and {canoe cedar}, and furnishes a useful timber. [1913 Webster]
{thuja oil}cedar leaf oil. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.