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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coniferous trees of China and Japan, of two species, resembling in their stiff, pungent, linear-lanceolate leaves the Araucaria, but more nearly allied to the Sequoia of California. The wood of the Chinese species, C. Sinensis, is used especially for tea-chests and coffins.
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And what poet has ever grown lyrical about a cunninghamia?
Try Anything Twice 1938
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Additional information needle cast cunninghamia lanceolata
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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