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baldcypress definition

☆ bald·cypress (bôld′sī′prəs)

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
also bald cypress

adjective

designating a family (Taxodiaceae) of conifers including the redwoods

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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