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TULE TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Example:

some say the Tule tree is the world's largest single biomass

Synonyms:

Ahuehuete; Tule tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Tule tree" is a kind of...):

Mexican swamp cypress; Montezuma cypress; Taxodium mucronatum (cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands)

Holonyms ("Tule tree" is a part of...):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

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