thuja

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: thu=ja

CIDE DICTIONARY

thuja, n. [NL., from Gr. an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.].

 A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.  [1913 Webster]
" Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitæ of the Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

thuja, n. (also thuya) any evergreen coniferous tree of the genus Thuja, with small leaves closely pressed to the branches; arbor vitae.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk thuia, an Afr. tree