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cypresses

cypresses is the plural of cypress.

Meaning of cypress

Noun

cypress (plural cypresses)

  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..1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv

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Phrases with cypresses

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Questions about cypresses

What is cypresses the plural of?
Cypresses is the plural of cypress.

Words near cypresses in the dictionary

  1. cypress spurge
  2. cypress trout
  3. cypress vine
  4. cypress vines
  5. cypressed
  6. cypresses
  7. cypressoid
  8. Cyprian
  9. Cyprian turpentine
  10. Cyprianic
  11. Cyprians

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