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ITALIAN CYPRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Italian cypress mean?
• ITALIAN CYPRESS (noun)
The noun ITALIAN CYPRESS has 1 sense:
1. tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches
Familiarity information: ITALIAN CYPRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cupressus sempervirens; Italian cypress; Mediterranean cypress
Hypernyms ("Italian 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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