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Definition of Cupressaceae
1. Noun. Cypresses and junipers and many cedars.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Coniferales, Order Coniferales
Member holonyms: Cedar, Cedar Tree, Cupressus, Genus Cupressus, Athrotaxis, Genus Athrotaxis, Austrocedrus, Genus Austrocedrus, Callitris, Genus Callitris, Calocedrus, Genus Calocedrus, Chamaecyparis, Genus Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Genus Cryptomeria, Genus Juniperus, Juniperus, Genus Libocedrus, Libocedrus, Redwood Family, Subfamily Taxodiaceae, Taxodiaceae, Genus Metasequoia, Genus Sequoia, Redwood, Sequoia, Genus Sequoiadendron, Sequoiadendron, Genus Taxodium, Taxodium, Genus Tetraclinis, Tetraclinis, Genus Thuja, Thuja, Genus Thujopsis, Thujopsis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupressaceae
Literary usage of Cupressaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1873)
"This group is represented by Cupressaceae and ... Cupressaceae occupy the second
place. The Sequoia is intermediate between these orders, and attained its ..."
2. Journal (1873)
"This group is represented by Cupressaceae and ... took the lead in the Tertiary
European flora; whilst the Cupressaceae occupy the second place. ..."
3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... Cupressaceae, and some New Zealand species of Veronica, (cf. also Fig. 195),
it is effected by reduction of the lamina, which is completely lost in ..."
4. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematicsby Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"... but morphologically reduced genus of the family Viscaceae, is parasitic on
Pinaceae in the Old and New Worlds and on Cupressaceae in the Old World. ..."
5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Cupressaceae • Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) BSP Atlantic white-cedar Evergreen
tree Sphagnum bogs. Early Bucks and Phila. Co. occurrences reported but not ..."
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