Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Thuja"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
Note: {Thuja occidentalis} is the {Arbor vit[ae]} 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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Thuja
n : red cedar [syn: {Thuja}, {genus Thuja}]
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