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- noun Plural form of
arborvitae .
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Examples
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Trees and shrubs such as Japanese maples, star magnolias, hinoki falsecypresses and arborvitaes will thrive for years, needing irrigation only during the driest parts of summer.
Small urban gardens can be designed with a large-yard feel Joel M. Lerner Special to The Washington Post 2010
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Unbroken barriers work best to reduce noise, but to acquire some semblance of year-round noise reduction from plants, use mixes of evergreens, including arborvitaes, spruces, pines and hollies.
Green Scene: Ways to dampen traffic noise on your property 2010
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Unbroken barriers work best to reduce noise, but to acquire some semblance of year-round noise reduction from plants, use mixes of evergreens, including arborvitaes, spruces, pines and hollies.
Green Scene: Ways to dampen traffic noise on your property 2010
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Small boxwoods and arborvitaes look fine in gardens but they look really stupid as set dressing behind movie and television stars.
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Small boxwoods and arborvitaes look fine in gardens but they look really stupid as set dressing behind movie and television stars.
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I think it is time for those arborvitaes to meet the compost pile.
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The arborvitaes are dying out at the bottom on the garden side, though they still look great on the opposite side.
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Most of the houses were neatly maintained, though the landscaping-old birds of paradise, arborvitaes, spindly tree roses-seemed haphazard.
Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992
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Chinese arborvitaes, a dozen of the New England or Lord
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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As a result, the bottom areas of my arborvitaes have turned brown and thinned out.
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