cypress

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In the northern part of the United States and in Canada it holds the first place for durability I thought the cypress was a flower," said Malcolm So one kind of cypress is," replied his governess--"the blossom of an airy-looking and beautiful creeper; but the name also belongs to a family of trees.

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  1. noun Any of various evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Cupressus, native to Eurasia and North America and having opposite, scalelike leaves and globose woody cones.
  2. noun Any of several similar or related coniferous trees, such as the bald cypress.
  3. noun The wood of any of these trees.

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  • Local artisan and master woodworker Glen McCune is crafting the seats and backs out of cypress, and the frames are the work of Tom Moran and made from reclaimed steel from World War II. —  Custom Search
  • Hoary and green with precipitate old age, the cypress-trees stood in moisture, and drooped their venerable beards from angular branches, the bald cypress overhanging its evergreen kinsman, and looking down upon the swamp-woods in autumn, like some hermit artist on the rich pigments on his palette But nothing looked so noble as the sweet gum, which rose like a giant plume of yellow and orange, a chief in joyous finery, where the cypress was only a faded philosopher Beside such a tall gum-tree Samson Hat reined in, where a well-spring shone at the bottom of a hollow cypress. —  The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • The stature like a cypress, the nightingale and the rose, the verses like pearls on a string, and others could be cited as instances. —  The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany
  • Many times he said to his heart in the prophetic words of his fantastic creation, "Morella Thy days henceforth shall be days of sorrow--that sorrow which is the most lasting of impressions as the cypress is the most enduring of trees. —  The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
  • The cypress, which is described below, is another cone-bearing tree which sheds its leaves in winter Illustration: FIG. —  Studies of Trees
 

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  1. Middle English cipres, from Old French, from Late Latin cypressus, probably blend of Latin cupressus and cyparissus (from Greek kuparissos).

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  1. Early modern English also cypresse, cipresse; from Middle English cipres, cipresse, cypresse, cupresse, from Old French cypres, French cyprès = Provencal cypres = Spanish ciprés = Portuguese cypreste = Italian cipresso = Dutch cipres = German cypresse = Danish cypres = Swedish cypress, from Late Latin cypressus, classical L. cupressus, rarely cyparissus, from Greek κυπάρισσ, σ1ος, Attic κυπάριττος, the cypress-tree, common in Greece. A different word and tree from cyprus, a tree of Cyprus, though formerly confused with it; Middle English cypyr-tre, later cyprus (Cot-grave), cypress, in form from Latin cyprus: see cyprus.
  2. First in Shakspere's time, spelled cypress, cypresse, cipresse, cipres, cyprus; origin unknown; possibly (since it is a book-word) from some misreading of Old French crespe, cypress, crape: see crape and crisp.
  3. Also spelled cypresse, cypres, altered, by confusion with cypress, from Latin cyperos, galingale: see Cyperus.
 

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