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ARBORVITAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("arborvitae" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arborvitae"):

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)

hiba arborvitae; Thujopsis dolobrata (slow-growing medium-large Japanese evergreen used as an ornamental)

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