macrocarpa

English

Etymology

From Latin macrocarpa (“large-fruited”).

Noun

macrocarpa (plural macrocarpas)

  1. The Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa. [from 19th c.]
    • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 216:
      From Ulverstone, the road dipped and rose through potato fields and lines of towering macrocarpa […] .

Translations

A tree - monterey cypress

Latin

Adjective

macrocarpa

  1. inflection of macrocarpus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

macrocarpā

  1. ablative feminine singular of macrocarpus
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