cypress
An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves,…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 pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.
Meaning
1 sensesAn 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.
Zypresse
кипари́сkiparís
- any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
- wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
Examples
11 sentencesThe pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.
The house is surrounded by a wall, beyond which cypresses grow.
deDas Haus ist von einer Mauer umgeben, jenseits derer Zypressen wachsen.
Surrounding the house is a wall, beyond which there are cypress trees growing.
deDas Haus ist von einer Mauer umgeben, jenseits derer Zypressen wachsen.
If six saws saw six cypresses, six hundred saws will saw six hundred cypresses.
The main type of tree in this part of the forest is the cypress.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Late Latin cypresFrom 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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Forms
plural: cypressesSynonyms
1 synonyms- any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones:cypress tree