MONTEZUMA CYPRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Montezuma cypress mean? 

• MONTEZUMA CYPRESS (noun)
  The noun MONTEZUMA CYPRESS has 1 sense:

1. cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands

  Familiarity information: MONTEZUMA CYPRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTEZUMA CYPRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Mexican swamp cypress; Montezuma cypress; Taxodium mucronatum

Hypernyms ("Montezuma cypress" is a kind of...):

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Montezuma cypress"):

Ahuehuete; Tule tree (Mexico's most famous tree; a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule)

Holonyms ("Montezuma cypress" is a member of...):

genus Taxodium; Taxodium (bald cypress; swamp cypress)