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American arborvitae

noun

small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

• Syn: ↑northern white cedar, ↑white cedar, ↑Thuja occidentalis

• Hypernyms: ↑arborvitae

• Member Holonyms: ↑Thuja, ↑genus Thuja

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized 1st A

: an evergreen tree (Thuja occidentalis) of eastern No. America having branchlets in horizontal planes — compare oriental arborvitae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.