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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Bot.) An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the Thuja occidentalis.
  • (Anat.) The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

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