Thy"ine wood` (?). [Gr. , fr. , adj., pertaining to the tree or , an African tree with sweet-smelling wood.] Bot.
The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach.
Rev. xviii. 12.
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