swamp cypress

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Origin of swamp cypress

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby swamp cypress

swamp azalea, swamp boat, swamp buggy, swamp buttonwood, swamp cabbage, swamp cypress, swamped, swamper, swamp fever, swampfish, swamphen

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How to use swamp cypress in a sentence

It was a swamp cypress of some thirty feet in girth, by at least a hundred and fifty in height.
Our Young Folks--Vol. I, No. II, February 1865|Various
It was a swamp cypress, of some thirty feet in girth, by at least a hundred and fifty in height.
The Guerilla Chief|Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for swamp cypress

swamp cypress

noun

a North American deciduous coniferous tree, Taxodium distichum, that grows in swamps and sends up aerial roots from its baseAlso called: bald cypress

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