Definition of Summer cypress

1. Noun. Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Summer Cypress

summer
summer's day
summer-camp
summer-house
summer-like
summer-stirring
summer-time
summer-work
summer and winter
summer boarder
summer camp
summer camps
summer cohosh
summer cottage
summer crookneck
summer cypress (current term)
summer damask rose
summer duck
summer fallow
summer flounder
summer haw
summer house
summer hyacinth
summer melt
summer pruning
summer pudding
summer puddings
summer redbird
summer resort
summer sausage

Literary usage of Summer cypress

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"summer cypress. MOCK CYPRESS. This includes two hardy annuals, ... The common summer cypress of gardens, although frequently grown under the name of A", ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"This includes a plant treated as a hardy annual which is called the Mock Cypress or summer cypress. J. Wilkinson Elliott says, "It grows 2-2% ft. high, ..."

3. Making a Garden to Bloom this Year by Grace Tabor (1912)
"... summer cypress lends itself to the edging of walks or inclosing beds or borders in a very charming fashion, quite suggestive of permanent green edgings. ..."

4. American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica by William Harrison De Puy (1891)
"... pyramidal, rigid form, and numerous narrow leaves, which make it, appear like a miniature cypress tree. It is sometimes called summer cypress. ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... pyramidal, rigid form, and numerous narrow leaves, which make it appear like a miniature cypress-tree. It is sometimes called summer cypress. ..."

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