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De - Pt| English Dictionary: thuya | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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d8Thuja \[d8]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}. Note: {Thuja occidentalis} is the {Arbor vit[91]} of the Eastern and Northern United States. {T. gigantea} of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called {red cedar}, and {canoe cedar}, and furnishes a useful timber. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Thuya \Thu"ya\, n. (Bot.) Same as {Thuja}. | |
