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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 Caledonia
Familiarity information: CYPRESS PINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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