CHAMAECYPARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chamaecyparis mean? 

• CHAMAECYPARIS (noun)
  The noun CHAMAECYPARIS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Chamaecyparis

  Familiarity information: CHAMAECYPARIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAMAECYPARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Chamaecyparis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chamaecyparis; genus Chamaecyparis

Hypernyms ("Chamaecyparis" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Chamaecyparis"):

Atlantic white cedar; Chamaecyparis thyoides; coast white cedar; southern white cedar; white cedar; white cypress (slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae)

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana; Lawson's cedar; Lawson's cypress; Oregon cedar; Port Orford cedar (large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet)

Alaska cedar; Chamaecyparis nootkatensis; Nootka cypress; yellow cedar; yellow cypress (tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament)

Holonyms ("Chamaecyparis" is a member of...):

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the wood of Chamaecyparis obtusa.

(Chamaecyparis obtusa Wood Oil, NCI Thesaurus)