Main Difference
The main difference between Pine and Cypress is that the Pine is a genus of plants and Cypress is a name applied to many plants of different genera.
Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus () of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The Plant List compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts 126 species names of pines as current, together with 35 unresolved species and many more synonyms.
Cypress
Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word cypress is derived from Old French cipres, which was imported from Latin cypressus, the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kyparissos).Species that are commonly known as cypresses include:
The Cupressaceae family also contains 13–16 other genera (not listed above) that do not bear cypress in their common names.
Plants named cypress
Pine (noun)
Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
“The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.”
Pine (noun)
Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
Pine (noun)
The wood of this tree.
Pine (noun)
A pineapple.
Pine (noun)
A painful longing.
Pine (verb)
To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem; to think something over.
Pine (verb)
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
Pine (verb)
To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
“Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.”
Pine (verb)
To grieve or mourn for.
Pine (verb)
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
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.
Pine (noun)
an evergreen coniferous tree which has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. Many kinds are grown for the soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.
Pine (noun)
used in names of coniferous trees of families other than that of the pine, e.g. Chile pine.
Pine (noun)
used in names of unrelated plants that resemble the pines in some way, e.g. ground pine, screw pine.
Pine (noun)
having the scent of pine needles
“pine potpourri”
Pine (noun)
a pineapple.
Pine (verb)
suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart
“she thinks I am pining away from love”
Pine (verb)
miss or long for
“she’s still pining for him”
Cypress (noun)
an evergreen coniferous tree with small rounded woody cones and flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves.
Cypress (noun)
a cypress tree, or branches from it, as a symbol of mourning.
Cypress (noun)
used in names of coniferous trees of other families that resemble the cypress, e.g. swamp cypress.