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swamp cypress
swamp cypress
noun
Also called: bald cypress.a North American deciduous coniferous tree, Taxodium distichum, that grows in swamps and sends up aerial roots from its base
Word History and Origins
Origin of swamp cypress1
Example Sentences
Other conifers in the fossil flora are the dawn redwood, Metasequoia, and swamp cypress Glyptostrobus.
The tables of ahuahuete, or swamp cypress, are installed short end flush to the wall in a manner typical of rural ranches.
The structural frame of the conservatory was made of steel," Cunningham writes, "although the graceful roof arches originally were built with Southern swamp cypress.
It was a swamp cypress, of some thirty feet in girth, by at least a hundred and fifty in height.
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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