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nounbattle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
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nounbattle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
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nounbattle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
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Definition that contains ypres
- cypress wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
- tule tree Mexico's most famous tree; a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule
- bald cypress common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms
- santa maria del tule a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca; site of Ahuehuete, a giant Montezuma cypress
- genus callitris evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines
- libocedrus plumosa New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress
- cupressus sempervirens tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches
- gowen cypress small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress
- cupressus goveniana pigmaea rare small cypress native to northern California; sometimes considered the same species as gowen cypress
- callitris cupressiformis Australian cypress pine having globular cones