What part of speech is cypress?

Cypress can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. cypress is a noun, singular of cypresses.

Inflections

Noun

What does cypress mean?

Definitions

Noun

cypress - any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
cypress - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus

Examples of cypress

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1. noun "Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear."
2. noun So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore.
3. noun Barren trees are the fir, elder, birch, cypress, beech, ivy, sallow, linden and so on, but most of them afford shade.
4. noun The main type of tree in this part of the forest is the cypress.
5. noun The house is surrounded by a wall, on the other side of which cypress trees are growing.
6. noun The house is surrounded by a wall, on the other side of which there are cypress trees growing.
7. noun Surrounding the house is a wall, beyond which there are cypress trees growing.
8. noun Later, when they had left, there wasn't a single living soul to be seen on the quay. The town, with its cypress trees, seemed completely deserted; only the sea continued to roar and crash against the shore.
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noun
"Ye too, my servants, hearken my commands. / Outside the city is a mound, where, dear / to Ceres once, but now deserted, stands / a temple, and an aged cypress near, / for ages hallowed with religious fear."
So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore.
Barren trees are the fir, elder, birch, cypress, beech, ivy, sallow, linden and so on, but most of them afford shade.
The main type of tree in this part of the forest is the cypress.
The house is surrounded by a wall, on the other side of which cypress trees are growing.
The house is surrounded by a wall, on the other side of which there are cypress trees growing.
Surrounding the house is a wall, beyond which there are cypress trees growing.
Later, when they had left, there wasn't a single living soul to be seen on the quay. The town, with its cypress trees, seemed completely deserted; only the sea continued to roar and crash against the shore.

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