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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
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.
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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.
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thuja oilcedar leaf oil.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Arbor vitae \Ar"bor vi"t[ae]\ [L., tree of life.]
1. (Bot.) An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus
Thuja. The American species is the Thuja occidentalis.
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2. (Anat.) The treelike disposition of the gray and white
nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical
section.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Arbor vitae \Ar"bor vi"t[ae]\ [L., tree of life.]
1. (Bot.) An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus
Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.
2. (Anat.) The treelike disposition of the gray and white
nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical
section.
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
arbor vitae
n.
Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the
genus ''Thuja'' and ''Thujopsis'', or of the species (taxlink
Platycladus orientalis species).
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
arbor vitae
n.
Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the
genus ''Thuja'' and ''Thujopsis'', or of the species (taxlink
Platycladus orientalis species).
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
arbor vitae
n.
Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the
genus ''Thuja'' and ''Thujopsis'', or of the species (taxlink
Platycladus orientalis species).
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
arbor vitae
n.
Any of the evergreen trees and shrubs known as arborvitae, of the
genus ''Thuja'' and ''Thujopsis'', or of the species (taxlink
Platycladus orientalis species).
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
arbor vitae /ˈɑːbə vˈɪtiː/
Lebensbaum [bot.]
Synonym: thuja
From Hungarian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.4.1 : [ freedict:hun-eng ]
arbor vitae /ˈɑrbor vˈitɑɛ/
tree of life
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