bald cypress

noun

1. a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.

bald cypress

noun

1. See swamp cypress
   another name for swamp cypress

Word History and Origins

Origin of bald cypress¹

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10

Example Sentences

The trees are the bald cypress (Taxodium) of the Southern States, and some of them were over twenty-five feet in diameter.

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Another important coniferous tree of the Southern forest is the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), which grows in the swamps.

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Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) is an example in which this property is particularly troublesome.

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The bald cypress, a southern tree, seems to be an anomalous growth.

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The name bald cypress was caused by the leafless appearance of the trees in winter.

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