1.  cypress(n = noun.plant) - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus;
is a kind of wood
has particulars: cypress pine, juniper, redwood, sequoia, bald cypress, pond bald cypress, southern cypress, swamp cypress, taxodium distichum, bald cypress, pond cypress, taxodium ascendens, mexican swamp cypress, montezuma cypress, taxodium mucronatum, callitris quadrivalvis, sandarac, sandarac tree, tetraclinis articulata

2.  cypress(n = noun.plant) cypress tree - any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones;
is a kind of conifer, coniferous tree
has parts: galbulus
is a member of cupressus, genus cupressus
has particulars: cupressus goveniana, gowen cypress, cupressus goveniana pigmaea, cupressus pigmaea, pygmy cypress, cupressus abramsiana, cupressus goveniana abramsiana, santa cruz cypress, arizona cypress, cupressus arizonica, cupressus guadalupensis, guadalupe cypress, cupressus macrocarpa, monterey cypress, cedar of goa, cupressus lusitanica, mexican cypress, portuguese cypress, cupressus sempervirens, italian cypress, mediterranean cypress

   A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]

cypress, n.
1 any coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus or Chamaecyparis, with hard wood and dark foliage.
2 this, or branches from it, as a symbol of mourning.

Etymology:
ME f. OF cipres f. LL cypressus f. Gk kuparissos

N  lament, lamentation, wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh, cry, scream, howl, outcry, wail of woe, ululation, frown, scowl, tear, weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth, plaintiveness, languishment, condolence, mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes, lachrymatory, knell, deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium, threne, monody, threnody, jeremiad, jeremiade, ullalulla, mourner, grumbler, Noobe, Heraclitus, lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing, sorrowful, mournful, tearful, lachrymose, plaintive, plaintful, querulous, querimonious, in the melting mood, threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, like Niobe all tears, elegiac, epicedial, de profundis, les larmes aux yeux, Int, heigh-ho!, alas!, alack!, O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!, lackadaisy!, well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day!, wellaway!, alas the day!, O tempora O mores!, what a pity!, miserabile dictu!, O lud lud!, too true!, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, if you have tears prepare to shed them now, interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, strangled his language in his tears, tears such as angels weep.

N  interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.

arizona cypress, bald cypress, black cypress pine, cypress family, cypress pine, cypress sedge, cypress spurge, cypress tree, cypress vine, gowen cypress, guadalupe cypress, italian cypress, lawson's cypress, mediterranean cypress, mexican cypress, mexican swamp cypress, monterey cypress, montezuma cypress, nootka cypress, pond bald cypress, pond cypress, portuguese cypress, pygmy cypress, red cypress pine, santa cruz cypress, southern cypress, summer cypress, swamp cypress, white cypress, white cypress pine, yellow cypress