arborvitæ

A form of arborvitae — Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.

Meanings

nounarborvitæ (plural arborvitæs)

plural arborvitæs

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of arborvitae.
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    Another conifer was met to-day,—incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens), a large tree with warm yellow-green foliage in flat plumes like those of arborvitæ, bark cinnamon-colored, and as the boles of the old trees are without limbs they make striking pillars in the woods where the sun chances to shine on them—a worthy companion of the kingly sugar and yellow pines.

    1911, John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
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