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Definition of Genus 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Taxodium
Literary usage of Genus 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)
"The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a cypress, but supplies the "
cypress " wood of American commerce. It is perhaps best to confine the name ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"The genus Taxodium is now known by two species from North America, of which T.
distichum dates from the Upper division of the Laramie beds, and occurs also ..."
4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"... but the trees themselves, rather than their woods, are valued in the United
States. The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a Cypress ..."
5. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a Cypress, but the trees of this
species supply the "cypress wood" of American commerce. ..."
6. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent, James Veitch & Sons (1900)
"It was separated from Cupressus by the elder Richard* who founded upon it the
genus Taxodium now firmly established notwithstanding the attempts of Mirbel ..."
7. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a Cypress, but the trees of this
species supply the "cypress wood" of American commerce. ..."
8. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"... an English botanist, who referred it to the genus Taxodium, naming it Taxodium
sempervirens, that is the evergreen Taxodium to distinguish it from the ..."
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