cypress

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• Alternative of Cyprus

Origin

• From Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος, probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; compare Hebrew גֹּפֶר, the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14), also κύπρος (realting to aromatic pitch).