cyphonism (sifonizm)

[ IMG:content-1947.jpg:[blocks in formation] prus, a tree of Cyprus, though formerly con fused with it; ME. cypyr - tre, later cyprus (Cot grave), cypre , in form (L. cyprus: see cy prus1.] I. n. 1. In bot.: ( a ) The popular name of coniferous trees of the genus Cupre us. Cypre (Cupre us semper. virens, var. fastigiata). The common cypre of southern Europe is C. sempervirens, of which there are two forms, one with upright appre ed branches like a Lombardy poplar, the other a flat-topped tree with horizontal branches. The wood is much used in carpentry. C. macrocarpa, the Monterey cypre of California, is a fine ornamental tree, and is frequently cultivated. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypre and the oak. Isa. xliv. 14. Such are (b) A name given to other coniferous trees nearly allied to the true cypre es. Lawson's cypre , Chamæcyparis Laws on i an a, and the yellow or Sitka cypre , C. Nutkaensis, of the Pacific coast of North America, both valuable timber-trees and largely cultivated for ornament; the bald, deciduous, black, swamp-, red, or white cypre , of the Atlantic States, Taxodium dist i chum, a large timber-tree of which the wood varies much in color; the desert-cypre of Aus tralia, Frenela robusta; and the golden cypre , Biota oriental is, of Japan, with yellow foliage. (c) One of various plants so named from a fancied resemblance to the true cypre , as the standing cypre , Gilia coronopifolia, a The club-mo , A Mexican con Quamoclit, Quamoclit, finely parted leaves and bright-scarlet or white IMG:content-1948.png:[graphic] Is this that jolly god, whose Cyprian bow Has shot so many flaming darts? Quarles, Emblems, ii. 9. Cypridæ IMG:content-1949.jpg:[graphic] erous or Cypricardia obes a.