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  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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