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bald cypress

noun

  1. a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.


bald cypress

noun

  1. another name for swamp cypress
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bald cypress1

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10
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Example Sentences

The trees are the bald cypress (Taxodium) of the Southern States, and some of them were over twenty-five feet in diameter.

Another important coniferous tree of the Southern forest is the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), which grows in the swamps.

Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) is an example in which this property is particularly troublesome.

The bald cypress, a southern tree, seems to be an anomalous growth.

The name bald cypress was caused by the leafless appearance of the trees in winter.

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