Thuja
Thuja (thū"jȧ) , noun
[New Latin, from Greek qyi`a an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.]
(Botany) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitae of the Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of North-western America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber.