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cypress

/sahy-pruhs/US // ˈsaɪ prəs //UK // (ˈsaɪprəs) //

柏树,柏木,柏油路,柏油路面

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several evergreen coniferous trees constituting the genus Cupressus, having dark-green, scalelike, overlapping leaves.
    • : any of various other coniferous trees of allied genera, as the bald cypress.
    • : any of various unrelated plants resembling the true cypress.
    • : the wood of these trees or plants.

Examples

  • Tom Sliter changes the subject to wood with a shot of Cypress shavings, whose curved petals segue to Eric Johnson’s photo of two red roses.

  • There are many varieties of the hinoki false cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa, for example.

  • Cypress declined to comment on any talks with the automaker.

  • So we made our fire breaks around these big old cypresses because we wanted to save them.

  • The procession continued on to the Cypress Hill Cemetery, where Ramos was buried the week before.

  • There were also beams of cypress and several other types of wood.

  • Even more striking were her findings regarding one of the cypress beams.

  • St. Joseph's Abbey opened a casket business in 2007, selling high-end handcrafted cypress caskets to help finance its operations.

  • Investigators with the Cypress Police Economic Crimes Unit had been quietly building a case and chose this moment to arrest them.

  • There'll be heaps uh fun in the Cypress Hills country when they get t' runnin' the whisky-jacks out.

  • They didn't linger long at Benton, but got under way and marched overland to the Cypress Hills.

  • Loftily pierce the tall white minarets into the quivering heavens, while the solemn cypress throws its shade below.

  • Before the door of the house were set branches of pine or cypress as a warning that the house was polluted by death.

  • Godfrey cast himself beneath a cypress, and his snoring soon told its story.