WordNet
n. any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones [syn: cypress]
Usage examples of "cypress tree".
Going to the window, I tried to see out onto the driveway, but a cypress tree blocked my view.
And not far from us the Hallinans lost goldfish from their outdoor pond to a kingfisher who stationed himself in the cypress tree nearby.
All he vaguely remembers is baiting the hook and stringing it up over the thick branch of a cypress tree, and then hearing another boat not far away, someone else hunting gators or maybe gigging frogs.
He darkened the lamp, climbed aboard the bed and thrust away from the manse toward the cypress tree, to which he tied the other end of the rope.
Rig took a last look at the ogre bodies encircling the massive cypress tree.
The sun burned low in the cypress tree, and Marta stood beneath it, perplexed, a dish of scraps in her hand.
Now he sat, grateful for the shade from the tall cypress tree, and watched the boys run.
The indigo entrance curtains bore the store's crest in white: a cypress tree, for Hinokiya-Cypress House.
I clamped onto his windpipe and, holding the cypress tree with my free hand, I leaned him out over the cliff.