thuja

American  

[thoo-juh] / ˈθu dʒə /

noun

1. any tree of the genus Thuja, comprising the arborvitaes.

2. the wood of the sandarac tree.

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thuja British  

/ ˈθuːjə /

noun

1. any of various coniferous trees of the genus Thuja, of North America and East Asia, having scalelike leaves, small cones, and an aromatic wood: family Cupressaceae See also arbor vitae

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Etymology

Origin of thuja

1750–60; < New Latin, Medieval Latin thuia, < Medieval Greek thuía, for Greek thýa kind of African tree

Example Sentences

Look for the dwarfest ones you can find, like the yellow Thuja orientalis ‘Aurea Nana’ and the silver-blue Juniperus horizontalis ‘Blue Pygmy’.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

The Western red cedar, or Thuja plicata, is the largest tree in the Pacific Northwest and one of the oldest in Western Washington.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2022

The Thuja occidentalis39 in the juvenescent and adult form, offers an example where morphological and chemical differences go hand in hand.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

Also called the Thuja, it is of cypress shape, slow growing and finely veined in the lower part of the base.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The leaves of conifers are characterized by their small size, e.g. the needle-form represented by Pinus, Cedrus, Larix, &c., the linear flat or angular leaves, appressed to the branches, of Thuja, Cupressus, Libocedrus, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various