noun
smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum
• Syn: ↑bald cypress, ↑Taxodium ascendens
• Hypernyms: ↑cypress
• Member Holonyms: ↑Taxodium, ↑genus Taxodium
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noun also pond bald cypress : a bald cypress (Taxodium ascendens) of the southeastern United States differing from the closely related common bald cypress (T. distichum) only in being of smaller size and in having subulate leaves and erect branchlets
Useful english dictionary. 2012.