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MONTEZUMA CYPRESS

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Meaning:

Cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands

Synonyms:

Mexican swamp cypress; Montezuma cypress; Taxodium mucronatum

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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