英语词汇arborvitae的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	arborvitae
词源	arborvitae. The white cedar was named arborvitae, Latin for the “tree of life,” by French explorers in Canada during the early 17th century. Champlain’s men had observed that Indians drank a medicinal tea made from the bark and needles of the white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) and so named the tree because it saved lives.
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