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CYPRESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cypress; cypress tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cypress" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (parts of "cypress"):

galbulus (the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree)

Meronyms (substance of "cypress"):

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cypress"):

Cupressus sempervirens; Italian cypress; Mediterranean cypress (tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches)

Cupressus goveniana; gowen cypress (small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress)

Cupressus goveniana pigmaea; Cupressus pigmaea; pygmy cypress (rare small cypress native to northern California; sometimes considered the same species as gowen cypress)

Cupressus abramsiana; Cupressus goveniana abramsiana; Santa Cruz cypress (rare California cypress taller than but closely related to gowen cypress and sometimes considered the same species)

Arizona cypress; Cupressus arizonica (Arizona timber tree with bluish silvery foliage)

Cupressus guadalupensis; Guadalupe cypress (relatively low wide-spreading endemic on Guadalupe Island; cultivated for its bluish foliage)

Cupressus macrocarpa; Monterey cypress (tall California cypress endemic on Monterey Bay; widely used for ornament as well as reforestation and shelterbelt planting)

cedar of Goa; Cupressus lusitanica; Mexican cypress; Portuguese cypress (tall spreading evergreen found in Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa)

Holonyms ("cypress" is a member of...):

Cupressus; genus Cupressus (type genus of Cupressaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cypress" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cypress"):

cypress pine (any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of Australia and northern New Caledonia)

juniper (coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones)

redwood; sequoia (either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae)

bald cypress; pond bald cypress; southern cypress; swamp cypress; Taxodium distichum (common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms)

bald cypress; pond cypress; Taxodium ascendens (smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum)

Mexican swamp cypress; Montezuma cypress; Taxodium mucronatum (cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands)

Callitris quadrivalvis; sandarac; sandarac tree; Tetraclinis articulata (large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes)

Holonyms ("cypress" is a substance of...):

cypress; cypress tree (any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones)

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