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TULE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tule tree mean? 

TULE TREE (noun)
  The noun TULE TREE has 1 sense:

1. 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 Tuleplay

  Familiarity information: TULE TREE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TULE TREE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ahuehuete; Tule tree

Context example:

some say the Tule tree is the world's largest single biomass

Hypernyms ("Tule tree" is a kind of...):

Mexican swamp cypress; Montezuma cypress; Taxodium mucronatum (cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands)

Holonyms ("Tule tree" is a part of...):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)


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