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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Thuja \Thu"ja\ (th[=u]"j[.a]), n. [NL., from Gr. qyi`a 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.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitae of the
         Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of
         North-western America is a very large tree, there
         called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a
         useful timber.
         [1913 Webster]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Thuya \Thu"ya\, n. (Bot.)
   Same as Thuja.
   [1913 Webster]

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