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Definition of Gowen cypress
1. Noun. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gowen Cypress
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Literary usage of Gowen cypress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"MONTEREY CYPRESS gowen cypress Fig. 1. An isolated arboreal island. ... (Gowen
Cypress) recurs on the coast two hundred and sixteen miles northward. ..."
2. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth (1908)
"gowen cypress, usually a small tree, is mainly known simply as " cypress," but
this name is confusing ; the coined паше, gowen cypress, is preferable. ..."
3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"... (gowen cypress).—A low growing tree from the neighbourhood of M on- terey, in
California, and of doubtful hardiness in oar country. It may ! ..."
4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"... (gowen cypress").—A low growing tree from the neighbourhood of Monterey, in
California, and of doubtful hardiness IT our country. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"gowen cypress. A shrub or small tree, 6 to 15 ft. high; leaves without dorsal
pits, rarely with lateral globose, about 10 lines in diameter; scales 6, ..."
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