Definition of "cypresses" [cypresses]

• Plural form of cypress. (noun)

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• "Cedars are also called cypresses, though there is also a cypress which is not a cedar, IIRC."
• "The trees resembled bushes more than timber, being chiefly small cypresses, which is the prevailing wood."
• "Near the cypresses is a fountain, scarcely heard, whose fall is so feeble and slow, that one would be led to call it the clepsydra of this solitude, where time makes so little noise."