swamp cypress
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of swamp cypress
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Other conifers in the fossil flora are the dawn redwood, Metasequoia, and swamp cypress Glyptostrobus.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
The tables of ahuahuete, or swamp cypress, are installed short end flush to the wall in a manner typical of rural ranches.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2014
The Menil is a two-story building some 400 ft. long, clad on the outside with wide-board gray swamp cypress in a white steel frame.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a swamp cypress of some thirty feet in girth, by at least a hundred and fifty in height.
From Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various
It was a swamp cypress, of some thirty feet in girth, by at least a hundred and fifty in height.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
