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Definition of Cypress
1. Noun. Wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus.
Specialized synonyms: Cypress Pine, Juniper, Redwood, Sequoia, Bald Cypress, Pond Bald Cypress, Southern Cypress, Swamp Cypress, Taxodium Distichum, Bald Cypress, Pond Cypress, Taxodium Ascendens, Mexican Swamp Cypress, Montezuma Cypress, Taxodium Mucronatum, Callitris Quadrivalvis, Sandarac, Sandarac Tree, Tetraclinis Articulata
Generic synonyms: Wood
2. Noun. Any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones.
Group relationships: Cupressus, Genus Cupressus
Specialized synonyms: Cupressus Goveniana, Gowen Cypress, Cupressus Goveniana Pigmaea, Cupressus Pigmaea, Pygmy Cypress, Cupressus Abramsiana, Cupressus Goveniana Abramsiana, Santa Cruz Cypress, Arizona Cypress, Cupressus Arizonica, Cupressus Guadalupensis, Guadalupe Cypress, Cupressus Macrocarpa, Monterey Cypress, Cedar Of Goa, Cupressus Lusitanica, Mexican Cypress, Portuguese Cypress, Cupressus Sempervirens, Italian Cypress, Mediterranean Cypress
Terms within: Galbulus
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree
Definition of Cypress
1. n. A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Definition of Cypress
1. Noun. An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cypress
1. a thin fabric [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypress
Literary usage of Cypress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The timber of the cypress is hard, close-grained, of a fine reddish hue, and very
durable. Among the ancients it was in request for poles, rafters, joists, ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1837 cypress knees are hollow cones, which rise from the roots of the ... 345, App.
1838 [The pony] deposited me among the cypress-knees in the swamp. ..."
3. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"The body of the wood is formed of sweet gum, water gum and tupelo, with these
more or less cypress, which however seldom constitutes as much as one-fourth ..."
4. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"The name cypress has been chiefly applied to trees of the genera ... The single
species of the genus Taxodium is not a cypress, but supplies the " cypress ..."
5. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII BALD cypress DISEASES THE bald cypress or Taxodium is an important
timber-tree in southern and southeastern United States. ..."
6. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"Pliny tells several extraordinary stories respecting the durability of its wood ;
the statue of Jupiter in the Capitol, which was formed of cypress, ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"COLLETON cypress CO. (No. 10124.) (Supreme Court of South Carolina. Jan. 21, 1919.
... Action by the Big Salkehatchie cypress Company, a corporation, ..."
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