Chinese swamp cypress

English

Noun

Chinese swamp cypress (plural Chinese swamp cypresses)

1. A deciduous tree of species 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.