Cypress branches used as a symbol of mourning. 柏枝作为悲哀象征的柏树枝
Nor shady cypress tree. 也无须柏树来荫覆。
cypress
[ noun ]
wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
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any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
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Cypress \Cy"press\ (s?"pr?s), n.; pl. {Cypresses} (-?z). [OE. cipres, cipresse, OF. cipres, F. cypr?s, L. cupressus, cyparissus (cf. the usual Lat. form cupressus), fr. Gr. ????, perh. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. g?pher, Gen. vi. 14.] (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 ({Ipot[oe]a Quamoclit}, formerly {Quamoclit vulgaris}).
In the quiet Pleasure Lake community, where houses and mobile homes cluster around a fish pond crowded with cypress, some neighbors had a feeling something was wrong at the secondhand Jackson trailer.
The cypress trees and vines are eclipsed by pines. Geraniums line the balconies and gothic script appears on white-washed walls.
Part of the loss is due to salt water intrusion through canals dredged for cypress logging at the turn of the century and for oilfield exploration and development over the past 50 years.
Barely three years on the market, it is made from the eggs of a fish known as the choupique, or cypress trout, and has caused a culinary sensation in south Louisiana.
The farm at Castel Gandolfo, the pope's hilltown holiday residence, covers about 60 acres on the palace grounds and is surrounded by pine, cypress and olive trees.
Hirohito's mound-like stone mausoleum, which will be completed in one year, sits in a quiet forest of towering cypress trees not far from the graves of his parents, Emperor Taisho and Empress Teimei.
Gerry Daigre, a Dow Chemical U.S.A. spokesman, said the company donated the house, which is held together by wooden pegs rather than nails and has cypress weather boards.
Even when her sight was good, she rarely traveled into the grass and cypress interior.
Fifty years ago, it was common to see 6,000 to 8,000 pairs of storks nesting in the gray-boughed cypress trees.
The cypress oak is called Quercus robur fastigiata, and is as narrow as the Dawyck beech when young. It is always upright but widens with age; my 30-year-old specimen has a spread of about 24 ft at 10 ft above ground level.
This winter, more than 1,000 pine and cypress trees will be planted to provide a screen between the new marshes and the sewage facility.