PORTUGUESE CYPRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Portuguese cypress mean? 

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

1. tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTUGUESE CYPRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cedar of Goa; Cupressus lusitanica; Mexican cypress; Portuguese cypress

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

cypress; cypress tree (any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones)