Cupressus

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Several unimportant horticultural forms are grown Illustration: PLATE XII.--Cupressus thyoides 1.

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  1. A genus of coniferous trees having small, scale-like, appressed or spreading acute leaves, as in the junipers, and cones formed of a small number of peltate woody scales, with several small angular seeds to each scale; the cypress. The common cypress of the old world is C. sempervirens, a native of the East. The tree with erect appressed branches, having a slender pyramidal form, frequently planted in Mohammedan and other burying-grounds, is a variety of this species, besides which there are three or four others in the Mediterranean region and central Asia. In North America there are seven or eight species, in Mexico, Arizona, and California. The wood is fragrant, compact, and durable.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin cupressus, rarely cyparissus, in Late Latin cypressus: see cypress.
 

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