2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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}. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: Thuja n : red cedar [syn: {genus Thuja}]
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