Definition of Thuja

1. Noun. Red cedar.


Definition of Thuja

1. n. A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.

Definition of Thuja

1. Noun. A tree of the genus ''Thuja''. ¹

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Definition of Thuja

1. an evergreen tree or shrub [n -S]

Medical Definition of Thuja

1. A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. Alternative forms: thuya See Thyine wood. Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitae of the Eastern and Northern United States. T. 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. Thujone. N. An oil, C10H16O, the chief constituent of cedar leaf oil. A stimulant similar to camphor. Also called thujol, thuyol, absinthol, thuyone, tanacetol, tanacetone. Origin: NL, from Gr. An African tree with sweet-smelling wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thuja

thuggery
thugging
thuggish
thuggishly
thuggishness
thuggism
thuggisms
thuggo
thuggos
thuggy
thuglike
thugocracies
thugocracy
thugs
thugz
thuja (current term)
thuja oil
thujas
thujin
thujol
thujone
thujones
thulia
thulian
thulias
thulite
thulites
thulium
thuliums

Literary usage of Thuja

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"thuja ix was now given. The growth stopped immediately ; ulceration ceased ; the pain ... 387) relates a case of persistent cough cured with thuja. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"Hering gives this as the action of thuja (i) on the fluids : " dissolution of fluids of the body, which become acrid, probably caused by thuja perverting ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"thuja orientalis var. decussata.—R. squarrosa, Sieb. dk Zucc. ... thuja Leaves opposite, leathery, entire and emarginate; stipules small and caducous: fls. ..."

4. The Hahnemannian Monthly (1921)
"The discovery of a process whereby our line of thuja preparations has been much improved, has resulted in the addition of another, very desirable thuja ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"that Nuttall's Thu. gigantea is really figured by him in Michaux as thuja Menziesii, and partly Tim. Plicata ; now in the Traité General des ..."

6. A Manual of Pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1870)
"It is the thuja occidentalis. Our tincture is prepared from the young shoots. The original proving of thuja is in the '.Mat. Med. Pura. ..."

7. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"thuja-TSUGA FORMATION. Nature.—The Cosst climax of the Northwest is a coniferous forest of unrivaled magnificence. The mature trees are very tall, ..."

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