1. small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress; [syn: gowen cypress, Cupressus goveniana]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gowen cypress
n 1: small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often
used as an ornamental; in some classification systems
includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress [syn:
gowen cypress, Cupressus goveniana]