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Definition of Montezuma cypress
1. Noun. Cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands.
Generic synonyms: Cypress
Group relationships: Genus Taxodium, Taxodium
Specialized synonyms: Ahuehuete, Tule Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Montezuma Cypress
Literary usage of Montezuma cypress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known by George Gordon, Robert Glendinning (1858)
"TAXODIUM DISTICHUM MEXICANUM, Gordon, the montezuma cypress. Syn. Taxodium pinnatum,
Hort. „ „ virens, Knight. „ „ Montezuma, Dunal. ..."
2. The Tree-lifter, Or, a New Method of Transplanting Forest Trees by George Greenwood (1876)
"... of the tree would have been thirty-nine feet in 936 years ; and the Montezuma
cypress would have been about 400 years old at the conquest of Mexico. ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"The famed Montezuma-Cypress of Mexico ; to 120 feet high, with a trunk reaching
44 feet in circumference ; it forms extensive forests between Chapultepec ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"montezuma cypress. Similar to the preceding species: taller evergreen tree,
occasionally 170 ft. high with a trunk 20 ft. or more in diam. ..."
5. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"The genus comprises several species including Taxo- dium distichum (from Louisiana)
and Taxodium mucronata, the montezuma cypress (from Mexico). ..."
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