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Definition of Italian cypress

1. Noun. Tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Italian Cypress

Literary usage of Italian cypress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Captain Cook adds that he sees no reason to apprehend that this species, which is nearly allied to the italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) and the ..."

2. Annals of Horticulture (1850)
"G. THE italian cypress.—It is quite a mistake to suppose the italian cypress too delicate for our climate. It has been neglected from want of knowledge how ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"italian cypress. With erect branches, forming a narrow, columnar head. The classical cypress of the Greek and Roman writers, much planted in S. Eu. GW 9, p. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"We learn the true use of the italian cypress, massed in close formation or silhouetted like sentinels against the sky-line. We learn how the dark ilex grove ..."

5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Captain Cook adds that he sees no reason to apprehend that this species, which is nearly allied to the italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) and the ..."

6. Annals of Horticulture (1850)
"G. THE italian cypress.—It is quite a mistake to suppose the italian cypress too delicate for our climate. It has been neglected from want of knowledge how ..."

7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"italian cypress. With erect branches, forming a narrow, columnar head. The classical cypress of the Greek and Roman writers, much planted in S. Eu. GW 9, p. ..."

8. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"We learn the true use of the italian cypress, massed in close formation or silhouetted like sentinels against the sky-line. We learn how the dark ilex grove ..."

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