baldcypress

(bôldprəs)

noun

any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall

adjective

designating a family (Taxodiaceae) of conifers including the redwoods
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