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canoe cedar definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States [syn: western red cedar, red cedar, canoe cedar, Thuja plicata]

Webster's 1913 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. T. gigantea of North-waetern America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.