单词 | taxodium |
释义 | taxodiumn. Any of several cypress trees comprising or formerly included in the genus Taxodium, now chiefly restricted to two trees of southern North America and Mexico, the bald cypress, T. distichum, of the southern United States, and the Mexican cypress, T. mucronatum (also called ahuehuete). Also (in form Taxodium): the genus itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > other conifers juniper1748 bald cypress1785 Norfolk Island pine1803 Norfolk pine1804 taxodium1821 kahikatea1823 Moreton Bay pine1826 mai1831 matai1831 white pine1833 podocarp1846 black rue1864 plum fir1866 cephalotaxus1883 hoop-pine1884 mountain hemlock1884 tide-land spruce1891 kahika1921 Leyland's cypress1933 Metasequoia1941 1821 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. V. 257 There is neither pine, nor thuya, nor taxodiums [Fr. Taxodium], nor even a podocarpus. 1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 62/2 The celebrated taxodium, of Chapultepec, in Mexico, was one hundred and seventeen feet in circumference. 1916 Geogr. Jrnl 48 16 Another characteristic tree of the highland valleys is the Ahuehuete, a Taxodium or cypress, a splendid tree which alas! is rapidly disappearing. 1950 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 40 212/1 From the Tertiary he listed seven species of Sequoia and three species of Taxodium. 2010 R. Lane Fox Thoughtful Gardening 310 The New York plantings include excellent taxodiums that are growing in well-drained ground. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821 |
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