cypress
See also: cy pres
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: Cyprus
Etymology 1
From Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos), probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; see Hebrew גפר (gopher), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14).
Noun
cypress (plural cypresses)
- 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.
Translations
an evergreen coniferous tree
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Swedish
Declension
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Nominative | cypress | cypressen | cypresser | cypresserna |
Genitive | cypress | cypressens | cypressers | cypressernas |
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