thuya

American  

[thoo-yuh] / ˈθu yə /

noun

1. thuja.

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thuya British  

/ ˈθuːjə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of thuja

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Example Sentences

The mud covered not only the workers but also mining equipment, including bulldozers and backhoes, from the Myanmar Thuya Co. and 9 Dragons Co.

From Los Angeles Times

One of the two contained the “well-preserved” mummified remains of a woman named Thuya, the antiquities ministry said in a statement, but ministry spokeswoman Nevine Aref later said work was continuing to definitively identify the name of the mummy.

From The Guardian

Highlights of the evening were exhibitions of mummies and the ornamented coffin covers of pharaonic courtier Yuya and his noblewoman wife Thuya.

From Reuters

Barely any leather survives on the chariots from Tutankhamun's tomb, though some fragments are known from chariots found in other tombs, such as that of Yuya and Thuya, Tutankhamun's great-grandparents.

From Scientific American

Thuya or Thuja, the classical Greek name; plicata refers to the folded leaves; gigantea refers to the gigantic size of the tree.

From Project Gutenberg