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MEXICAN SWAMP CYPRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican swamp cypress mean? 

MEXICAN SWAMP CYPRESS (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN SWAMP CYPRESS has 1 sense:

1. cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlandsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MEXICAN SWAMP 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 ("Mexican swamp 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 "Mexican swamp 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 ("Mexican swamp cypress" is a member of...):

genus Taxodium; Taxodium (bald cypress; swamp cypress)


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