thuya

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thuya - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Thuja \Thu"ja\ (th[=u]"j[.a]), n. [NL., from Gr. qyi`a 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.
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     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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  Thuya \Thu"ya\, n. (Bot.)
     Same as Thuja.
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