| 单词 | thuya-wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthuya-wood Name of a genus of coniferous trees, consisting of about ten species, of which the North American T. occidentalis and the Chinese T. orientalis are commonly cultivated under the name Arbor Vitæ. (The tree so called by the ancients is now known as Callitris.) Also attributive, as thuya-wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun] cedarc1000 cedar-treec1000 fir-cedar1601 white cedar1654 arbor vitae1664 Thuya1707 thuja1764 American arbor vitae1785 Honduras cedar1799 Cedrela1832 kawaka1832 deodar1842 stinking cedar1866 stinking yew1866 Alaska cedar1874 1483 T. Gaza tr. Theophr. H. Pl. F iiij Tyium quod thuia ab aliis appellatur. 1671 Bauhin Pinax 488 Thuya Theophrasti. Arbor Vitæ, Bellonio; Thuia sive Thya, vulgo. Cam[erarius]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Thya, a kind of wild Cypress-Tree, whose Wood is very sweet and lasting; the Life-Tree.] 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 60 Thuya, or Arbor vitæ, grows of Layers or Slips to a tall straight goodly Tree. 1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. (1772) II. 315 All the posts which are driven into the ground are made of Thuya wood. 1836 H. Murray et al. Hist. China I. i. 19 Richly clothed with trees, particularly the tallow, the camphor, the thuya or arbor vitæ. 1903 F. Eden Garden in Venice iii. 17 A tiny square of garden, closed in with an unshapely hedge of thuya and euonymus. < as lemmas |
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