CYPRESS FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cypress family mean? 

• CYPRESS FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CYPRESS FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. cypresses and junipers and many cedars

  Familiarity information: CYPRESS FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYPRESS FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cypresses and junipers and many cedars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae

Hypernyms ("cypress family" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "cypress family"):

genus Juniperus; Juniperus (junipers)

genus Thujopsis; Thujopsis (one species; has close similarity to genus Thuja)

genus Thuja; Thuja (red cedar)

genus Tetraclinis; Tetraclinis (sandarac tree)

genus Taxodium; Taxodium (bald cypress; swamp cypress)

genus Sequoiadendron; Sequoiadendron (giant sequoias; sometimes included in the genus Sequoia; until recently placed in the Taxodiaceae)

redwood; sequoia (either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae)

genus Sequoia (redwoods; until recently considered a genus of a separate family Taxodiaceae)

genus Metasequoia (genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae)

redwood family; subfamily Taxodiaceae; Taxodiaceae (coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems)

genus Libocedrus; Libocedrus (cypresses that resemble cedars)

Cryptomeria; genus Cryptomeria (Japanese cedar; sugi)

Chamaecyparis; genus Chamaecyparis (a genus of Chamaecyparis)

Calocedrus; genus Calocedrus (tall evergreens of western North America and eastern Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus)

Callitris; genus Callitris (evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines)

Austrocedrus; genus Austrocedrus (one species; formerly included in genus Libocedrus)

Athrotaxis; genus Athrotaxis (a genus of gymnosperm)

Cupressus; genus Cupressus (type genus of Cupressaceae)

cedar; cedar tree (any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars)

Holonyms ("cypress family" is a member of...):

Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)

 Context examples 

A type of evergreen tree with hard fragrant wood that is a member of the cypress family.

(Cedarwood, NCI Dictionary)