Cypress
['saɪprəs]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones.
(noun.) wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus.
Checked by Edwin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Typist: Vilma
Definition
n. an evergreen tree whose branches used to be carried at funerals; hence a symbol of death.—adj. Cyp′rine.
Typed by Hiram
Examples
- Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bayou Baxter, as it reaches lower land, begins to spread out and disappears entirely in a cypress swamp before it reaches the Macon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We placed his remains under a cypress, the upright mountain being scooped out to receive them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No, you never saw it; but you recognize the nature of these trees, this foliage--the cypress, the willow, the yew. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The outlines of the cypresses that lined it were sharp and clear. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typist: Portia