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| 1. | any of several evergreen coniferous trees constituting the genus Cupressus, having dark-green, scalelike, overlapping leaves. |
| 2. | any of various other coniferous trees of allied genera, as the bald cypress. |
| 3. | any of various unrelated plants resembling the true cypress. |
| 4. | the wood of these trees or plants. |
[sahy-pruhs] | a city in SW California. 40,391. |
cy·press (sī'prĭs)  (click for larger image in new window) n.
[Middle English cipres, from Old French, from Late Latin cypressus, probably blend of Latin cupressus and cyparissus (from Greek kuparissos).] |
| Cy·press (sī'prĭs) A city of southern California, a suburb of Long Beach. Population: 47,600. |
Cypress
(Heb. tirzah, "hardness"), mentioned only in Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "holm tree"). The oldest Latin version translates this word by ilex, i.e., the evergreen oak, which may possibly have been the tree intended; but there is great probability that our Authorized Version is correct in rendering it "cypress." This tree grows abundantly on the mountains of Hermon. Its wood is hard and fragrant, and very durable. Its foliage is dark and gloomy. It is an evergreen (Cupressus sempervirens). "Throughout the East it is used as a funereal tree; and its dark, tall, waving plumes render it peculiarly appropriate among the tombs."