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  • noun New Zealand The Monterey cypress.

Etymologies

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From Latin macrocarpa ("large-fruited").

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Examples

  • Hi Tina – The specific name macrocarpa (“big fruit”) makes sense!

    Gifts of the Season « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • Constant wetting due to spray and important levels of insolation determine a fairly distinctive flora, known as cupay forest Copaifera langsdorfii, with Anadenantera macrocarpa and Xilopia brasiliensis in the highest stratum.

    Iguazú National Park, Argentina 2008

  • Among the exciting discoveries were new species of conifers, such as Pinus hartwegii, Pinus ayacahuite, P. moctezumae, P. patula, Cupressus macrocarpa, and Sequoia sempervirens.

    Did you know? Many common garden flowers originated in Mexico. 2008

  • Among the exciting discoveries were new species of conifers, such as Pinus hartwegii, Pinus ayacahuite, P. moctezumae, P. patula, Cupressus macrocarpa, and Sequoia sempervirens.

    Did you know? Many common garden flowers originated in Mexico. 2008

  • Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa ‘Goldcrest’ backlit

    Starting Anew « Fairegarden 2010

  • These include Solanum brachyantherum, Eragrostis peruviana and Tetragonia macrocarpa.

    San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests 2007

  • A newly planted pot of a gold Monterey Cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa surrounded by golden club moss, Selaginella kraussiana in hopes of becoming a Bonsai sits on the seat.

    Rock My World-A Zen Garden « Fairegarden 2009

  • Deciduous seasonal or dry forest elements include Anadenanthera macrocarpa, Chorisia spp.,

    Beni savanna 2008

  • Further north in the ecoregion, the transitional grassland ecoclimate supports a vegetation of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) groves, mixed tall shrubs, and intermittent fescue grasslands.

    Northern mixed grasslands 2008

  • Rare and endangered species found in this ecoregion include California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), hoary elfin butterfly (Incisalia polios obscurus), North Pacific plantain (Plantago macrocarpa), and possibly the Pacific fisher (Martes pennanti).

    Central Pacific coastal forests 2008

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  • "Beyond the vision of her pumping knees on some desperate errand, and the bloodied dress above them, and playing in the yellow dust under the macrocarpa hedge, and a young women turning cartwheels on the lawn—whom she assumes to be Rita—she has only the scantiest memories of her very early life."

    Kehua! by Fay Weldon, p 130

    October 29, 2013