Translingual

Taxodium distichum

Proper noun

Taxodium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cupressaceae – large conifers that grow in swampy and riparian environments from the southeastern US to Guatemala.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Tracheophyta - phylum; Pinophyta - division; Pinopsida - class; Pinales - order; Cupressaceae - family; Taxodioideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Taxodium distichum (bald cypress) - type species; Taxodium ascendens (pond cypress), Taxodium mucronatum (Montezuma cypress) - other extant species; †Taxodium dubium - extinct species

Coordinate terms

• (genus in Toxodioideae): Glyptostrobus (Chinese swamp cypress), Cryptomeria (sugi)

Descendants

• English: taxodone

English

Noun

taxodium ‎(plural taxodiums)

1. Any of the genus Taxodium of flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family.
   • 2009 July 16, Penelope Green, “Feathering Her Nest”, in New York Times:

     It was a bright July morning, and she was showing off her garden, a “Through the Looking Glass” landscape of taxodium, cryptomeria and juniper, alliums, corkscrew grass and ostrich ferns […]