cy·press /ˈsaɪprəs/
 絲柏,絲柏木,柏樹


 Cy·press n.; pl. Cypresses (-░z).  Bot A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
 Note: ☞ Among the trees called cypress are the common Oriental cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, the evergreen American cypress, Cupressus thyoides (now called Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea), and the deciduous American cypress, Taxodium distichum. As having anciently been used at funerals, and to adorn tombs, the Oriental species is an emblem of mourning and sadness.
 Cypress vine Bot., a climbing plant with red or white flowers (Ipotœa Quamoclit, formerly Quamoclit vulgaris).

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 cypress
      n 1: wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus
           Cupressus
      2: any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of
         north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and
         rounded cones [syn: cypress tree]


 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."