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Definition of Thuyas
1. thuya [n] - See also: thuya
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thuyas
Literary usage of Thuyas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"thuyas are well arfa|/ted for hedges and wind-breaks. They bear pruning well and
soon form a ... thuyas Five species occur in N. America, E. and Cent. A?ia. ..."
2. Japanese Impressions: With a Note on Confucius by Paul Louis Couchoud (1921)
"The alignment of the thuyas has been just enough broken; and the effect is ...
The grey of the thuyas takes on the delicacies of a softened silver; ..."
3. Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal (1897)
"As to tho thuyas, there are some curious facts relating to their history which
may bo hero alluded to. Thoro is Thuya occidentalis, a native of the Atlantic ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"... the oaks, all shades of red, orange, purple. gray or brown ; while the pines,
spruces, thuyas and junipers wear their perennial robes of darker ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"... o mounted on a pedestal and crowned with a wreath of fresh laurel; it was
surrounded with living thuyas. ..."
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