thuja

See also: Thuja

English

Leaves and cones of Thuja occidentalis

Etymology

From taxonomic New Latin Thuja, from Ancient Greek θυία (thuía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθu.d͡ʒə/

Noun

thuja (plural thujas)

1. A tree of the genus Thuja.
   • 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 305:

     She walked among the thuja trees in the garden and wept: over the book, over her children, over her lost country.

Hypernyms

• arborvitae, cypress

Translations

a tree of the genus Thuja

• Catalan: tuia
• Esperanto: tujo
• Finnish: tuija (fi)
• German: Thuja (de) f
• Ido: tuyo (io)
• Ottoman Turkish: مازو (mazu, mazı)
• Polish: żywotnik (pl) m, tuja (pl) f
• Portuguese: tuia (pt) f
• Russian: ту́я (ru) f (túja)
• Spanish: tuya (es)
• Swedish: tuja (sv) c
• Turkish: mazı

See also

• thuja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thuja on Wikispecies.Wikispecies