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cypress
1[ sahy-pruhs ]
noun
- any of several evergreen coniferous trees constituting the genus Cupressus, having dark-green, scalelike, overlapping leaves.
- any of various other coniferous trees of allied genera, as the bald cypress.
- any of various unrelated plants resembling the true cypress.
- the wood of these trees or plants.
cypress
2[ sahy-pruhs ]
noun
- a fine, thin fabric resembling lawn or crepe, formerly used in black for mourning garments and trimmings.
Cypress
3[ sahy-pruhs ]
noun
- a city in SW California.
cypress
1/ ˈsaɪprəs /
noun
- a fabric, esp a fine silk, lawn, or crepelike material, often black and worn as mourning
cypress
2/ ˈsaɪprəs /
noun
- See Leyland cypressany coniferous tree of the N temperate genus Cupressus, having dark green scalelike leaves and rounded cones: family Cupressaceae See also Leyland cypress
- any of several similar and related trees, such as the widely cultivated Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ( Lawson's cypress ), of the western US
- any of various other coniferous trees, esp the swamp cypress
- the wood of any of these trees
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Example Sentences
The procession continued on to the Cypress Hill Cemetery, where Ramos was buried the week before.
There were also beams of cypress and several other types of wood.
Even more striking were her findings regarding one of the cypress beams.
St. Joseph's Abbey opened a casket business in 2007, selling high-end handcrafted cypress caskets to help finance its operations.
Investigators with the Cypress Police Economic Crimes Unit had been quietly building a case and chose this moment to arrest them.
There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t' runnin' the whisky-jacks out.
They didn't linger long at Benton, but got under way and marched overland to the Cypress Hills.
Loftily pierce the tall white minarets into the quivering heavens, while the solemn cypress throws its shade below.
Before the door of the house were set branches of pine or cypress as a warning that the house was polluted by death.
Godfrey cast himself beneath a cypress, and his snoring soon told its story.
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