Chinese swamp cypress

noun

A deciduous tree of species Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical parts of southeastern China.

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nounChinese swamp cypress (plural Chinese swamp cypresses)

plural Chinese swamp cypresses

  1. A deciduous tree of species Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical parts of southeastern China.

    The Chinese swamp cypress is deciduous, and it occurs naturally only on riverbanks and in swamps.

    2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 99
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    […]the branchlets of the bald cypresses, and those of the smaller Chinese swamp cypresses growing with them, turned to a rusty orange colour and were shed.

    1977, Dale A. Russell, A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada (Natural History Series No. 4), Ottawa, Ont.: National Museum of Natural Sciences, →ISBN, page 81
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