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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cypress \Cy"press\ (s?"pr?s), n.; pl. Cypresses (-?z). [OE. cipres, cipresse, OF. cipres, F. cypr?s, L. cupressus, cyparissus (cf. the usual Lat. form cupressus), fr. Gr. ????, perh. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. g?pher, Gen. vi. 14.] (Bot) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Note: Among the trees called cypress are the common Oriental cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, the evergreen American cypress, Cupressus thyoides (now called Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea), and the deciduous American cypress, Taxodium distichum. As having anciently been used at funerals, and to adorn tombs, the Oriental species is an emblem of mourning and sadness.
Cypress vine (Bot.), a climbing plant with red or white flowers ( Ipot[oe]a Quamoclit, formerly Quamoclit vulgaris).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of evergreen tree (sacred to Pluto), late 12c., from Old French cipres (12c., Modern French cyprès), from Late Latin cypressus, from Latin cupressus, from Greek kyparissos, probably from an unknown pre-Greek Mediterranean language. Perhaps related to Hebrew gopher, name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Gen. vi:14).
Wiktionary
n. 1 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'' 2 silk or cotton gauze fabric, usually black
WordNet
n. wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones [syn: cypress tree]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 16028
Land area (2000): 6.612538 sq. miles (17.126395 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012266 sq. miles (0.031768 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.624804 sq. miles (17.158163 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17750
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.818315 N, 118.039045 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 90630
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Total area (2000): 0.747246 sq. miles (1.935358 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18251
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.365543 N, 89.017473 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62923
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Wikipedia
Cypress is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was located in the south of the province.
Cypress was created for the 1886 provincial election, and abolished with the 1969 election.
Cypress is a name used for many plants, including the conifer family Cupressaceae, but also other trees, vines, and small shrubs
Cypress may also refer to:
Cypress is a former Alberta provincial electoral district.
Cypress is the name applied to many plants in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions. Most cypress species are trees, while a few are shrubs.
Cupressus sempervirens is famous for its longevity, and has been a popular garden plant for thousands of years.
The word cypress is derived from Old French cipres, which was imported from Latin cypressus the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος ( kyparissos).
- African cypress ( Widdringtonia species)
- Bald, pond, and Montezuma cypresses ( Taxodium species, native to North America)
- Chinese swamp cypress ( Glyptostrobus pensilis)
- Cordilleran cypress ( Austrocedrus chilensis)
- Cypress ( Callitropsis species)
- Cypress ( Cupressus species)
- Cypress-pines ( Actinostrobus species)
- Cypress-pines ( Callitris species)
- False cypress ( Chamaecyparis species)
- Fujian cypress ( Fokienia hodginsii)
- Guaitecas cypress ( Pilgerodendron uviferum)
- Patagonian cypress ( Fitzroya cupressoides)
- Siberian cypress ( Microbiota decussata)
The Cupressaceae family also contains 13–16 other genera (not listed above) that do not bear cypress in their common names.
The word cypress is also used as a descriptor for the angiosperm vine in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, known as the cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit).
The plant called "summer cypress" is Bassia scoparia ( Amaranthaceae).
Cypress is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. This district was created before the 3rd Saskatchewan general election in 1912 as "Gull Lake". Since the district encompassed most of the Saskatchewan side of the Cypress Hills, the riding was renamed "Cypress" in 1917. Redrawn and renamed "Shaunavon" before 1934, the constituency was abolished before the 9th Saskatchewan general election in 1938.
It is now part of the Cypress Hills and Wood River constituencies.
Usage examples of "cypress".
Ottomans and center of the silk trade, its quiet, declining streets abloom with minarets and cypress trees.
Constructed of heart cypress from trees felled in the swamp that was a part of the acreage, it was filled with all the furnishings that made life gracious as well as comfortable.
Nevill Caird were in the cypress avenue when Victoria Ray drove up in a ramshackle cab, guided by an Arab driver who squinted hideously.
Behind the grimy, soot-darkened facades of their houses were sumptuous palaces of fragrant cypress and cryptomeria wood, and white-plastered storehouses stacked to the rafters with chests of silks and lacquer ware and porcelain.
From Deep Lake it is a terrible distance across the Cypress to Fort Myers but only thirteen miles south to the Storter docks at Everglade, and Mr.
Algiers, and walked the three miles or so to the head of Bayou des Familles, through cypress swamps that crowded along the edges of the higher land near the river.
Still, a single hinoki cypress, dark green, flourished amid its sterile surroundings.
Instead he veered for the high ground himself, where the water ash and cypress and palmetto gave place to loblolly pine that killed most undergrowth with its needles.
No trace of a garden, except for a bizarrely suburban machicolation of cypress hedge.
The customary essences of neroli, eucalyptus and cypress were meant only as a cover for the actual scent that he intended to produce: that was the scent of humanness.
Stoner, A week ago, just about this time, Frank and I were arriving at the Stoner homestead in far-off Holly Bluff--home of pecky cypress at its best, and Frank was getting a second look at his beloved paneling.
In the gush of names I learned that Junie Alteck art-directed Cypress Hill and Redman videos, Bee Prudhomme had been knifed to death by a lover in a ski chalet outside Helsinki, and Moira Hogarth was a performance artist known for being censured by a Midwestern senator.
Suddenly the houses were again shaken, the minarets reeled like cypresses, and the wall against which Captain Polyxigis was leaning split right down the middle.
I had stripped the paper from the wall next to the window, put liquid wood filler in the two bullet holes there, then sanded them over and repapered the cypress planks.
He galloped away along the Lower Road, in the direction of Quien Sabe, emerging from the grove of cypress and eucalyptus about the ranch house, and coming out upon the bare brown plain of the wheat land, stretching away from him in apparent barrenness on either hand.