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thuja
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Thuja gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.
thuja oilcedar leaf oil.
Wiktionary
n. A tree of the genus ''Thuja''.
Wikipedia
Thuja is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are five species in the genus, two native to North America and three native to eastern Asia. The genus is monophyletic and sister to Thujopsis.
They are commonly known as arborvitaes, (from Latin for tree of life) thujas or cedars.
Species- Thuja koraiensis Nakai - Korean thuja - Jilin, Korea
- Thuja occidentalis L. - Eastern arborvitae, northern whitecedar - E Canada ( Manitoba to Nova Scotia), E United States (primarily Northeast, Great Lakes, Appalachians)
- Thuja plicata Donn ex D.Don - Western redcedar - from Alaska to Mendocino County in California
- Thuja standishii (Gordon) Carrière - Japanese thuja - Honshu, Shikoku
- Thuja sutchuenensis (Gordon) Carrière - Sichuan thuja - Sichuan, Chongqing China almost extinct in the wild
- Austrocedrus chilensis (D.Don) Pic.Serm. & Bizzarri (as T. chilensis D.Don)
- Callitris rhomboidea R.Br. ex Rich. (as T. australis Poir.)
- Cupressus nootkatensis D.Don (as T. excelsa Bong.)
- Glyptostrobus pensilis (Staunton ex D.Don) K.Koch (as T. pensilis Staunton ex D.Don)
- Libocedrus plumosa (D.Don) Sarg. (as T. doniana Hook.)
- Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco (as T. orientalis L.)
- Podocarpus javanicus (Burm.f.) Merr. (as T. javanica Burm.f.)
- Tamarix aphylla (L.) H.Karst. (as T. aphylla L.)
- Tetraclinis articulata (Vahl) Mast. (as T. articulata Vahl)
- Thujopsis dolabrata (Thunb. ex L.f.) Siebold & Zucc. (as T. dolabrata Thunb. ex L.f.)
- Widdringtonia nodiflora (L.) Powrie (as T. cupressoides L.)
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Usage examples of "thuja".
Sometimes, as if from long-standing habit, he would take his sharp, heavy sheers out of his overcoat pocket and painstakingly, without asking any money, set to work in the yard in front of the main building, trimming the thuja bushes, pruning the acacias, and weeding the garden beds.
After skirting the public garden, through whose iron fence came the hot, dry fragrance of myrtle and thuja with its tart little cones, the boy stopped, threw back his head and stared for a rather long time at the clock on the railway station.
He had long since made a thorough examination of the nearby villa: a bright-green lawn, gravel on the walks, thuja trees, a statue spotted with purple blots of shadow, a vase from which long sharp leaves of aloe hung down, and an artist painting a landscape.
Grie raked some dry fallen leaves into a pile near a thuja pine-tree, and sat down with his back against the soft, resilient trunk.
The most amazing thing, though, was that right in the middle of the ocean stood a thuja pine, which a moment before had stood in the grove, and there he was, Grie, sitting beneath and leaning against the trunk.
Gum Juniper is a name of Sandarac, theresinous product of Thuja articulata or Callitris quadrivalvis.