cypress

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/    美 /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — The plain appears like paradiſe reſtored, where the proud cypreſs and tall arreca ſeem walking by the margin of the paſſing ſtream..
  2. Alternative form of Cyprus (“type of fabric”). alt-of,alternative

词形变化

cypresses plural cypres alternative,obsolete cypres alternative,obsolete

词源

From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Late Latin cypressus; compare Hebrew גֹּפֶר (gōp̄er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14), also κύπρος (relating to aromatic pitch).
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