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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
- cupressus goveniana abramsiana rare California cypress taller than but closely related to gowen cypress and sometimes considered the same species
- cupressus pigmaea rare small cypress native to northern California; sometimes considered the same species as gowen cypress
- callitris evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines
- stringybark pine Australian cypress pine with fibrous inner bark
- mexican swamp cypress cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands
- genus taxodium bald cypress; swamp cypress
- italian cypress tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches
- euphorbia cyparissias Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States
- taxodium mucronatum cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands