Chinese swamp cypress

English

Noun

Chinese swamp cypress (plural Chinese swamp cypresses)

  1. A deciduous tree, Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical parts of southeastern China.
    • 1977, Dale A[lan] Russell, A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada (Natural History Series No. 4), Ottawa, Ont.: National Museum of Natural Sciences, →ISBN, page 81:
      […] 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.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 99:
      The Chinese swamp cypress is deciduous, and it occurs naturally only on riverbanks and in swamps.
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