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Definition of Chamaecyparis
1. Noun. A genus of Chamaecyparis.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Cupressaceae, Cypress Family, Family Cupressaceae
Member holonyms: Atlantic White Cedar, Chamaecyparis Thyoides, Coast White Cedar, Southern White Cedar, White Cedar, White Cypress, Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana, Lawson's Cedar, Lawson's Cypress, Oregon Cedar, Port Orford Cedar, Alaska Cedar, Chamaecyparis Nootkatensis, Nootka Cypress, Yellow Cedar, Yellow Cypress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamaecyparis
Literary usage of Chamaecyparis
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)
"Chamaecyparis Spach. Trees or shrubs; leading shoot nodding; branchlets more or
less flattened and in flat sprays; leaves opposite, in 4 rows, ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"NEW STATIONS FOR Chamaecyparis ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK.— Professor Fernald of
the Gray Herbarium has called my attention to the fact that in ..."
3. A Practical Flora for Schools and Colleges by Oliver Rivington Willis (1894)
"The.geographical zone of the chamaecyparis is from 30° to 42° north latitude.
In America it extends across the continent, and it occupies about the same ..."
4. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"Hui-Lin Li, "A New Species of Chamaecyparis" Morris Arboretum Bulletin 13 ...
132; David C. Michener, "Chamaecyparis," in Flora of North America (New York: ..."
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