Cypress

·noun A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

Cypress
(Heb. tirzah, "hardness"), mentioned only in Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "holm tree"). The oldest Latin versio...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Cypress
(Heb. tirzah). The Hebrew word is found only in (Isaiah 44:14) We are quite unable to assign any def...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
cypress-brake
A basin-shaped depression of land near the margin of shallow, sluggish bayous, into which the supera...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.