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Definition of Genus Thuja
1. Noun. Red cedar.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Cupressaceae, Cypress Family, Family Cupressaceae
Member holonyms: Canoe Cedar, Red Cedar, Thuja Plicata, Western Red Cedar, American Arborvitae, Northern White Cedar, Thuja Occidentalis, White Cedar, Oriental Arborvitae, Platycladus Orientalis, Thuja Orientalis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Thuja
Literary usage of Genus Thuja
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Closely allied to the genus Thuja ¡a Callitris. ... The genus Thuja, like many
other forms of conifers, is represented by ancestral forms in cretaceous ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"See CYPRESS. The timber is highly esteemed, and an infusion of the scrapings is
sometimes used as » stomachic.—Closely allied to the genus Thuja U Cal- ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"See CYPRESS. The timber is highly esteemed, and an infusion of the scrapings is
sometimes used as a stomachic.—Closely allied to the genus Thuja is ..."
4. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1867)
"... type wo mark the first appearance in this system, in at least Scotland, of
the genus Thuja. ..."
5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"It differs from the genus Thuja in having the scales of the female catkins
constantly from 4 to 6, all opening like the valves of a regular pericarp; ..."
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