arbor vitae in English
noun
1
a North American and eastern Asian evergreen coniferous tree of the cypress family.
I just had large arbor vitaes removed and a dying pin oak.
2
the arborescent appearance of the white matter in a vertical section of the cerebellum.
Because the tissue is highly branched it is called arborvitae.
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1. After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, Botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty