cypress
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1. any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | conifer, coniferous tree, |
| definition | : | any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cupressus goveniana, gowen cypress, |
| definition | : | small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cupressus goveniana pigmaea, cupressus pigmaea, pygmy cypress, |
| definition | : | rare small cypress native to northern California; sometimes considered the same species as gowen cypress (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cupressus abramsiana, cupressus goveniana abramsiana, santa cruz cypress, |
| definition | : | rare California cypress taller than but closely related to gowen cypress and sometimes considered the same species (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | arizona cypress, cupressus arizonica, |
| definition | : | Arizona timber tree with bluish silvery foliage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cupressus guadalupensis, guadalupe cypress, |
| definition | : | relatively low wide-spreading endemic on Guadalupe Island; cultivated for its bluish foliage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cupressus macrocarpa, monterey cypress, |
| definition | : | tall California cypress endemic on Monterey Bay; widely used for ornament as well as reforestation and shelterbelt planting (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cedar of goa, cupressus lusitanica, mexican cypress, portuguese cypress, |
| definition | : | tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cupressus sempervirens, italian cypress, mediterranean cypress, |
| definition | : | tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | galbulus, |
| definition | : | the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | cupressus, genus cupressus, |
| definition | : | type genus of Cupressaceae (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | cypress, |
| definition | : | wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus (noun.plant) |
2. wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | wood, |
| definition | : | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | cypress pine, |
| definition | : | any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and northern New Caledonia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | juniper, |
| definition | : | coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bald cypress, pond bald cypress, southern cypress, swamp cypress, taxodium distichum, |
| definition | : | common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bald cypress, pond cypress, taxodium ascendens, |
| definition | : | smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | mexican swamp cypress, montezuma cypress, taxodium mucronatum, |
| definition | : | cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | callitris quadrivalvis, sandarac, sandarac tree, tetraclinis articulata, |
| definition | : | large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes (noun.plant) |
| substance meronym | : | cypress, cypress tree, |
| definition | : | any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones (noun.plant) |
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