What's the difference between cypress and mourning?

Cypress


Definition:

  • (n.) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
  • (2) Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the intensity of fluorescence of the pollen samples treated with the antibody was greater than that of non-treated reference pollen or the antibody treated Hinoki-cypress pollen.
  • (3) A gun-metal grey speedboat powers across the still Ionian Sea until the cypress trees of the largest private estate in Corfu heave into view and the pilot kills the engine.
  • (4) The survival of virus present in secondary effluents discharged into a cypress dome was studied.
  • (5) Minarets stretched alongside cypresses to touch the sky.
  • (6) The sources of the kits were Hillcrest Biologicals, Cypress, Calif.; Whittaker Bioproducts, Walkersville, Md.
  • (7) From 1984 to 1986 110 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida were examined for intestinal coccidial infections.
  • (8) Infections were restricted to alpine and montane regions in southwestern Alberta (97%) as well as boreal uplands of the Cypress Hills in southeastern Alberta (3%).
  • (9) Weaving through a forest of cork oaks and pines, the path sometimes disappears into the water, where bald cypress trees poke up like wooden meerkats, a Louisiana mangrove on the west coast of France.
  • (10) Doddering up to speed, the boat dragged through the oil until the bow suddenly rose up on what, a thousand-year-old cypress stump or one of a million abandoned pipelines?
  • (11) With this trek you can explore Montalcino and San Gimignano from a decidedly different angle, trotting through terraced vineyards, cypress avenues and extensive woodland.
  • (12) Who speaks up for the cypress, the fir, the conifer?
  • (13) A fountain thickly covered in fern and moss drips quietly at the centre, lemons and cypresses scent the air.
  • (14) A form of pollen allergy, which is uncommon in most parts of the world and in other Mediterranean countries where cypresses are abundant (Italy, Spain, Greece), with the exception of Israel, has become a problem since 1975 in our area.
  • (15) Simultaneously, the numbers of airborne pollens of Japanese cedar and cypress were counted, and the relation to the SP and VIP concentrations in nasal secretions from the patients with nasal allergy to Japanese cedar pollen was studied.
  • (16) Adult Dicrocoelium dendriticum were collected from liver of two wapiti, one mule deer, and one white-tailed deer from the Cypress Hills.
  • (17) When applied to growth data for cypress tree seedlings and two species of waterfowl exposed chronically to low levels of a variety of stressors, these analyses revealed that curve shape was more likely to change in response to stress than were either asymptotic size or growth rate.
  • (18) All three non-Caucasian groups appear to be more sensitive than the matched Caucasians to cedar, cypress, and juniper.
  • (19) Infectious puma lentivirus (PLV) was isolated from several Florida panthers, a severely endangered relict puma subspecies inhabiting the Big Cypress Swamp and Everglades ecosystems in southern Florida.
  • (20) Immunologic and cross-reactivity studies of Cupressaceae antigens in the rabbit, and skin test results from suspected Junifer Cypress pollinosis patients, indicate that a large number of species of the Cupressaceae family are of possible allergenic importance in our mobile population in many areas of the United States and the world.

Mourning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mourn
  • (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
  • (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.
  • (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
  • (a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) Coping with dying patients and mourning are also basic family tasks.
  • (5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
  • (6) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
  • (7) A model of transition that accounts for individual differences is used to discuss the potential interaction among variables associated with the mourning process.
  • (8) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (9) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
  • (10) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
  • (11) Despite the findings of this study, it was suggested that future dove management strategies consider the possibility of disease outbreaks involving white-winged doves and susceptible populations of mourning doves.
  • (12) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
  • (13) The Afghan government has declared three days of national mourning.
  • (14) If the internet allows us all to participate in collective mourning , then it should also demand that we do so more creatively.
  • (15) It was the third day of mourning for a young man named Issam.
  • (16) In order to escape from guilt he retreated once more to the protection of the organization and it is this which prevented him mourning his lost objects.
  • (17) As a sport, we mourn for Kirsty and remember her great contribution to swimming and the Loxton community.” Boden was a keen traveller and said she was “just your average dreamer, with a full-time job and a constant longing to go where I haven’t been”.
  • (18) Finally, Germany also mourned the death of four people in a car accident in Hamburg.
  • (19) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
  • (20) Last month saw impassioned protests from immigrant representatives after the mayor refused to declare an official day of mourning for three Chinese drowned in floods.

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