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macrocarpa

noun

macrocarpa is a noun meaning “The Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-C-A-R-P-A, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of macrocarpa is macrocarpas.

What does macrocarpa mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa.

    From Ulverstone, the road dipped and rose through potato fields and lines of towering macrocarpa […] .

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of macrocarpa

  • macrocarpas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is macrocarpa?

Macrocarpa appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does macrocarpa come from?

From Latin macrocarpa (“large-fruited”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).