Definition of Cupressaceae

1. Noun. Cypresses and junipers and many cedars.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupressaceae

Cuneo
Cuniculus paca
Cunningham
Cunninghamella elegans
Cunoniaceae
Cuon
Cuon alpinus
Cupertino effect
Cupid
Cupid's bow
Cupid's bows
Cupid's disease
Cupid's itch
Cupidinian
Cupidlike
Cupressaceae (current term)
Cupressus
Cupressus abramsiana
Cupressus arizonica
Cupressus goveniana
Cupressus goveniana abramsiana
Cupressus goveniana pigmaea
Cupressus guadalupensis
Cupressus lusitanica
Cupressus macrocarpa
Cupressus pigmaea
Cupressus sempervirens
Cuprimine
Cuquenan
Cuquenan Falls

Literary usage of Cupressaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1873)
"This group is represented by Cupressaceae and ... Cupressaceae occupy the second place. The Sequoia is intermediate between these orders, and attained its ..."

2. Journal (1873)
"This group is represented by Cupressaceae and ... took the lead in the Tertiary European flora; whilst the Cupressaceae occupy the second place. ..."

3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... Cupressaceae, and some New Zealand species of Veronica, (cf. also Fig. 195), it is effected by reduction of the lamina, which is completely lost in ..."

4. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematicsby Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"... but morphologically reduced genus of the family Viscaceae, is parasitic on Pinaceae in the Old and New Worlds and on Cupressaceae in the Old World. ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Cupressaceae • Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) BSP Atlantic white-cedar Evergreen tree Sphagnum bogs. Early Bucks and Phila. Co. occurrences reported but not ..."

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