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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 highlands
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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