pond cypress

noun

variants or less commonly pond bald cypress

: a deciduous conifer (Taxodium ascendens) of the southeastern U.S. that resembles the closely related bald cypress (T. distichum) but is typically of smaller size and has awl-shaped or scalelike leaves

Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined above

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