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CYPRESS PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cypress pine mean? 

CYPRESS PINE (noun)
  The noun CYPRESS PINE has 1 sense:

1. any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and northern New Caledoniaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CYPRESS PINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and northern New Caledonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cypress pine"):

Callitris cupressiformis; Port Jackson pine (Australian cypress pine having globular cones)

black cypress pine; Callitris calcarata; Callitris endlicheri; red cypress pine (Australian tree with small flattened scales as leaves and numerous dark brown seed; valued for its timber and resin)

Callitris glauca; Callitris glaucophylla; white cypress pine (small tree or shrub of southern Australia)

Callitris parlatorei; stringybark pine (Australian cypress pine with fibrous inner bark)

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

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


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