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CYPRESS
Definition of CYPRESS
noun
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.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Late Latin cypressus; compare Hebrew גֹּפֶר (gōp̄er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14), also κύπρος (relating to aromatic pitch).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CYPRESS · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Hebrew.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CYPRESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CYPRESS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEPRSSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CYPRES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CYPRESS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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