Definition of Chamaecyparis

1. Noun. A genus of Chamaecyparis.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamaecyparis

Chaldeans
Chaldee
Chaldees
Chaldæa
Chaldæan
Chaldæans
Challis
Chalon
Chalons
Chalons-sur-Marne
Chalybean
Chamaea
Chamaea fasciata
Chamaecrista
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Chamaecyparis
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
Chamaecyparis thyoides
Chamaecytisus
Chamaecytisus palmensis
Chamaedaphne
Chamaedaphne calyculata
Chamaeleo
Chamaeleo chamaeleon
Chamaeleo oweni
Chamaeleon
Chamaeleonidae
Chamaeleontidae
Chamaemelum

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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