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GOWEN CYPRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gowen cypress mean?
• GOWEN CYPRESS (noun)
The noun GOWEN CYPRESS has 1 sense:
1. small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress
Familiarity information: GOWEN CYPRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cupressus goveniana; gowen cypress
Hypernyms ("gowen 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)
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