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Cypress

//ˈsaɪ.pɹəs// name, noun

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Proper Noun

1
A city in Orange County, California, United States.
2
Ellipsis of Cypress County. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Noun

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.
"The plain appears like paradiſe reſtored, where the proud cypreſs and tall arreca ſeem walking by the margin of the paſſing ſtream.."
2
Alternative form of Cyprus (“type of fabric”). alt-of, alternative
3
any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones wordnet
4
wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Late Latin cypressus; compare Hebrew גֹּפֶר (gōp̄er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14), also κύπρος (relating to aromatic pitch).

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