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Montezuma cypress

noun

cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands

• Syn: ↑Mexican swamp cypress, ↑Taxodium mucronatum

• Hypernyms: ↑cypress

• Hyponyms: ↑Ahuehuete, ↑Tule tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Taxodium, ↑genus Taxodium

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\\|mäntə|zümə-\ noun

Usage: usually capitalized M

Etymology: probably after Montezuma II died 1520 Aztec ruler at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico

: ahuehuete

Useful english dictionary. 2012.