different between cypress vs arborvitae

English

Alternative forms

• cypres (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.p??s/
• Homophone: Cyprus

Etymology 1

From Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kupárissos), probably from an unknown Mediterranean Pre-Greek language; compare Hebrew ??????? (g?p?er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14).

Noun

cypress (plural cypresses)

1. An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cypress

1. Alternative form of Cyprus (“type of fabric”)

References

• cypress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cupressus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chamaecyparis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Swedish

Noun

cypress c

1. cypress

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin arbor (“tree”) +? vitae (“of life”).

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /???b??va?ti/, [???b??va??i], (Canadian raising) [???b??v???i]
  • IPA^(key): /???b??va?t?/

Noun

arborvitae (plural arborvitaes)

1. Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.
2. (anatomy) The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure.