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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nounUsage: 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.