AHUEHUETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ahuehuete mean? 

• AHUEHUETE (noun)
  The noun AHUEHUETE 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 Tule

  Familiarity information: AHUEHUETE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AHUEHUETE (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 ("Ahuehuete" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Ahuehuete" is a part of...):

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