ˈtȯrēə noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, after John Torrey died 1873 American botanist and chemist
: a genus of Asiatic and No. American trees (family Taxaceae) having two-ranked often ill-scented linear leaves and a large ovoid fruit resembling a drupe but being actually a large seed surrounded by a fleshy aril — see california nutmeg , stinking cedar