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Definition of Swamp cypress
1. Noun. Common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms.
Generic synonyms: Cypress
Group relationships: Genus Taxodium, Taxodium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamp Cypress
Literary usage of Swamp cypress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Formation of Coal Beds by John James Stevenson (1913)
"Where that depth is exceeded, no trees are found "' NS Shaler, " The American
swamp cypress," Science, OS, Vol. II., 1883, pp. 38-40. ..."
2. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on Planting and Tending of Forest Trees by James Brown (1894)
"THE swamp cypress or DECIDUOUS CYPRESS, Taxodium distichum Richard. ... The wood
of the swamp cypress is of a resinous description, and is, when freshly cut ..."
3. Revision of Fossil Sequoia and Taxodium in Western North America Based on by Ralph W. Chaney (2008)
"Heer also compared his specimens, from the Miocene of Switzerland, with the living
swamp cypress of North America. I agree with Knowlton that there is no ..."
4. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to by Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859)
"The resemblance to the Southern deciduous or swamp cypress, which has led to its
being confounded with this variety is chiefly in the autumn, ..."
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