NOUN
- tall California cypress endemic on Monterey Bay; widely used for ornament as well as reforestation and shelterbelt planting
How To Use Monterey cypress In A Sentence
- Harbor seals haul out in hidden coves, and the fog drifts through a grove of rare Monterey cypress, where lace lichen dangles from the branches and an orange algae crusts the trunks.
- Monstrous, contorted shapes -- those Monterey cypresses look like creatures born underground, who, at the price of almost unbearable torture, have torn through the earth's crust, thrusting and twisting themselves airward. The Native Son
