DCHP-1 Online
Nootka cypress [< Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island] 
a species of evergreen, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, of the Pacific Coast.
See also: yellow cedar
- 1935 The yellow cypress . . . is known under various names . . . yellow cedar . . . canoe cedar, Nootka cypress and others and is confined to the Pacific coast.
- 1956 YELLOW CEDAR [is also called] Yellow cypress . . . Nootka cypress, canoe cedar.
- 1935 The yellow cypress . . . is known under various names . . . yellow cedar . . . canoe cedar, Nootka cypress and others and is confined to the Pacific coast.