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cypress

• 1 n. one of several species of pine tree, especially the Banksian and the lodge-pole.

  See also: Banksian pine  jackpine  lodgepole pine  

  • 1793  (1801)  The trees are spruce, red-pine, cypress, poplar. . . .
  • 1872  (1873)  Near Victoria was a sandy ridge producing scrub pine, or as the people here called it "cypress."
  • 1953  French-speaking fur traders found the high lands first and named them Cyprès, their word for the jack pines they found. Through the years the word became changed to Cypress, misleading because no cypress trees can be found there.
  • 1956  Jack Pine [is also called] Banksian pine . . . grey pine . . . cypress, juniper.

• 2 n. East any of several species of pine that yield pitch, especially Pinus rigida found in parts of Eastern Canada.

  See also: pitch pine  

  • 1767  They are hereby forbid to cut down . . . White Pine, Red Pine, Cypress, or White Oak Trees, on the lands above described.
  • 1921  Nothing remained but cord the split wood in the shed beside the house where it was sheltered from the snow; the huge piles mingling the resinous cypress which gives a quick hot flame, spruce and red birch, burning steadily and longer, close-grained white birch with its marble-like surface, slower yet to be consumed. . . .

• 3 n. Pacific Coast a species of evergreen, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, of the Pacific Coast.

  See also: Nootka cypress  yellow cedar  

  • 1869  A quantity of cypress bark . . . is teased into oakum. . . .
  • 1905  . . . Menzies spruce, western hemlock, and cypress are the principal trees, all of which grow in plenty, and of immense size.
  • 1917  (1920)  . . . The Western Cypresses. . . . Only one species, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, occurs in Canada.
  • 1966  Estimated annual production . . . Cypress 10.2 [million cubic feet]. . . .