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Definition of Taxodium
1. Noun. Bald cypress; swamp cypress.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Cupressaceae, Cypress Family, Family Cupressaceae
Member holonyms: Bald Cypress, Pond Bald Cypress, Southern Cypress, Swamp Cypress, Taxodium Distichum, Bald Cypress, Pond Cypress, Taxodium Ascendens, Mexican Swamp Cypress, Montezuma Cypress, Taxodium Mucronatum
Definition of Taxodium
1. Noun. Any of the genus ''Taxodium'' of flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taxodium
Literary usage of Taxodium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus Taxodium, Rich. The bald cypress has two sister species in the genus Taxodium.
One, a shrub, is native to China; the other, a large tree, to Mexico. ..."
2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"(Cupressus and Taxodium.) The name cypress has been chiefly applied to trees ...
The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a cypress, but supplies the ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"Taxodium ascendens Brongniart (1888). Taxodium distichum sinense pendulum ...
It may be added that Taxodium distichum was first described by Parkinson in ..."
4. The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known by George Gordon, Robert Glendinning (1858)
"Taxodium. Richard. The Deciduous Cypress. Flowers, monoecious, or male and female
on the same ... Taxodium distichum patens, Endlicher. „ „ „ nigrum, Hort. ..."
5. Studies from the Biological Laboratory by Johns Hopkins university (1893)
"THE FORM ATION OF THE SO-CALLED CYPRESS- KNEES ON THE ROOTS OF THE Taxodium
DISTICHUM, RICHARD. By JOHN P. LOTSY, PH. D. With Plates XVII and XVIII. ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"This is not often the case; but still there are some instances recorded, as those
of the Baobab and Taxodium before alluded to, of trees having existed for ..."
7. Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States: Including a by Samuel James Record (1912)
"In Taxodium distichum they are characteristically crowded, flattened, and often
irregularly arranged. In dicotyledonous woods as a whole, pits are much ..."
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