(n) Asiatic shrub or small tree widely planted in United States and Europe; in some classifications assigned to its own genus, Syn.Thuja orientalis, Platycladus orientalis
‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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