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.
User Defined Definitions
"wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus"
"any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones"