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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: red cedar [syn: Thuja, genus Thuja]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin Thuja, from Medieval Latin thuia, a cedar, from Greek thyia, from thyein to sacrifice — more at thyme Date: circa 1760 any of a genus (Thuja) of evergreen shrubs and trees (as an arborvitae) of the cypress family having scalelike closely imbricated or compressed leaves

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Written also Thuya.] Arbor vitae.