GENUS THUJA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Thuja mean? 

• GENUS THUJA (noun)
  The noun GENUS THUJA has 1 sense:

1. red cedar

  Familiarity information: GENUS THUJA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS THUJA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Red cedar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Thuja; Thuja

Hypernyms ("genus Thuja" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Thuja"):

canoe cedar; red cedar; Thuja plicata; western red cedar (large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States)

American arborvitae; northern white cedar; Thuja occidentalis; white cedar (small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets)

Oriental arborvitae; Platycladus orientalis; Thuja orientalis (Asiatic shrub or small tree widely planted in United States and Europe; in some classifications assigned to its own genus)

Holonyms ("genus Thuja" is a member of...):

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)