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arborvitae

11 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. arborvitae (noun)
  2. arborvitae leaf miner (noun)
  3. American arborvitae (noun)
  4. Chinese arborvitae (noun)
  5. false arborvitae (noun)
  6. giant arborvitae (noun)
  7. hiba arborvitae (noun)
  8. Japanese arborvitae (noun)
  9. Oriental arborvitae (noun)
  10. western arborvitae (noun)
  11. Pacific cedar (noun)

ar·bor·vi·tae

noun \ˌär-bər-ˈvī-tē\

Definition of ARBORVITAE

: any of various evergreen trees and shrubs (especially genus Thuja) of the cypress family that usually have closely overlapping or compressed scale leaves and are often grown for ornament and in hedges
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Origin of ARBORVITAE

New Latin arbor vitae, literally, tree of life
First Known Use: 1646

Rhymes with ARBORVITAE

Aphrodite, aqua vitae, lignum vitae

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