大侧柏

[ noun ]
large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States
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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}.

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.

{thuja oil}cedar leaf oil.