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Noun: yellow cypress  'ye-low'sIp-rus
  1. Tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament
    "yellow cypresses can live for over a thousand years";
    - yellow cedar, Nootka cypress, Alaska cedar, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis

Derived forms: yellow cypresses

Type of: cedar, cedar tree

Part of: Chamaecyparis, genus Chamaecyparis

Encyclopedia: Yellow cypress