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swamp cypress

swamp cypress

noun

  1. Also called: bald cypressa North American deciduous coniferous tree, Taxodium distichum, that grows in swamps and sends up aerial roots from its base

“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 swamp cypress1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Other conifers in the fossil flora are the dawn redwood, Metasequoia, and swamp cypress Glyptostrobus.

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The tables of ahuahuete, or swamp cypress, are installed short end flush to the wall in a manner typical of rural ranches.

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The structural frame of the conservatory was made of steel," Cunningham writes, "although the graceful roof arches originally were built with Southern swamp cypress.

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It was a swamp cypress, of some thirty feet in girth, by at least a hundred and fifty in height.

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There's a damp chill in the Louisiana bayou as dawn casts a pink light on the swamp cypresses festooned in moss.

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