Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun american_arborvitae

1 sense of american arborvitae

Sense 1
American arborvitae, northern white cedar, white cedar, Thuja occidentalis -- (small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets)
       => arborvitae -- (any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis)