Cypress

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Cupressus, native to Eurasia and North America and having opposite, scalelike leaves and globose woody cones.
  • n. Any of several similar or related coniferous trees, such as the bald cypress.
  • n. The wood of any of these trees.
  • n. Cypress branches used as a symbol of mourning.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany: The popular name of coniferous trees of the genus Cupressus.
  • n. A name given to other coniferous trees nearly allied to the true cypresses.
  • n. One of various plants so named from a fancied resemblance to the true cypress, as the standing cypress, Gilia coronopifolia, a tall, slender, polemoniaceous herb, with divided leaves and scarlet flowers, and the Belvedere, broom-, or summer cypress, a tall chenopodiaceous plant, Kochia scoparia, sometimes cultivated.
  • n. An emblem of mourning for the dead, cypress-branches having been anciently used at funerals.
  • Belonging to or made of cypress.
  • n. A thin transparent black or white stuff; a kind of crape.
  • Made of or resembling cypress.
  • n. The English galingale, Cyperus longus: called sweet cypress from its aromatic roots. Also cypress-root.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
  • n. any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
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