TULE TREE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Tule tree mean? • TULE TREE (noun)
The noun TULE TREE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: TULE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TULE TREE (noun)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ahuehuete; Tule tree
Context example:
some say the Tule tree is the world's largest single biomass
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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