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cy⋅press

1  [sahy-pruhs]
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–noun
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.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE cypresse < LL cypressus, appar. b. L cupressus and cyparissus < Gk kypárissos; r. ME cipres < AF, OF < LL, as above
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cy⋅press

2  [sahy-pruhs]
–noun Obsolete.
a fine, thin fabric resembling lawn or crepe, formerly used in black for mourning garments and trimmings.
Also, cyprus.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME cipre(s), cyprus, after Cyprus

Cy⋅press

  [sahy-pruhs]
–noun
a city in SW California. 40,391.
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n.  

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

    3. The wood of any of these trees.

  2. Cypress branches used as a symbol of mourning.


[Middle English cipres, from Old French, from Late Latin cypressus, probably blend of Latin cupressus and cyparissus (from Greek kuparissos).]
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cypress 
c.1175, from O.Fr. cipres, from L. cyparissus, from Gk. kyparissos, from an unknown pre-Greek Mediterranean language. Perhaps related to Heb. gopher, name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Gen. vi.14).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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