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AMERICAN ARBORVITAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American arborvitae mean?
• AMERICAN ARBORVITAE (noun)
The noun AMERICAN ARBORVITAE has 1 sense:
1. small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets
Familiarity information: AMERICAN ARBORVITAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American arborvitae; northern white cedar; Thuja occidentalis; white cedar
Hypernyms ("American arborvitae" is a kind of...):
arborvitae (any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis)
Holonyms ("American arborvitae" is a member of...):
genus Thuja; Thuja (red cedar)
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