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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.

noun. Any of several similar or related coniferous trees, such as the bald cypress.

noun. The wood of any of these trees.

noun. Cypress branches used as a symbol of mourning.

noun. A thin transparent black or white stuff; a kind of crape.

Made of or resembling cypress.

noun. The English galingale, Cyperus longus: called sweet cypress from its aromatic roots. Also cypress-root.

noun. In botany: The popular name of coniferous trees of the genus Cupressus.

noun. A name given to other coniferous trees nearly allied to the true cypresses.

noun. One of various plants so named from a fancied resemblance to the true cypress, as the standing cypress, Gilia coronopifolia, a tall, slender, polemoniaceous herb, with divided leaves and scarlet flowers, and the Belvedere, broom-, or summer cypress, a tall chenopodiaceous plant, Kochia scoparia, sometimes cultivated.

noun. An emblem of mourning for the dead, cypress-branches having been anciently used at funerals.

Belonging to or made of cypress.

noun. A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

noun. a climbing plant with red or white flowers (Ipotœa Quamoclit, formerly Quamoclit vulgaris).

noun. 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

noun. wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus

noun. any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones