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White cypress

noun

Slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae. Synonyms: Atlantic white cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides, coast white cedar, southern white cedar, white cedar.

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... dances, songs, and holy apparitions." Plutarch might be summarising the Fijian belief. Again, take the mystic golden scroll, found in a Greek grave at Petilia. It describes in hexameters the Path of the Shade: the spring and the white cypress on the left: "Do not approach it. Go to the other stream from the Lake of Memory; tell the Guardians that you are the child of Earth and of the starry sky, but that yours is a heavenly lineage; and they will give you to drink of that water, and you shall reign ...

— The Homeric Hymns - A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological • Andrew Lang

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Words linked to "White cypress" : cedar tree, genus Chamaecyparis, Chamaecyparis, cedar