Definition of Genus taxodium

1. Noun. Bald cypress; swamp cypress.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Taxodium

genus Tamus
genus Tanacetum
genus Tantilla
genus Tapirus
genus Taraktagenos
genus Taraktogenos
genus Taraxacum
genus Taricha
genus Tarpon
genus Tarrietia
genus Tarsius
genus Taurotragus
genus Tautoga
genus Tautogolabrus
genus Taxidea
genus Taxodium
genus Taxus
genus Tectaria
genus Tectona
genus Telanthera
genus Tellima
genus Telopea
genus Templetonia
genus Tenrec
genus Tephrosia
genus Terebella
genus Teredo
genus Termes
genus Terrapene

Literary usage of Genus taxodium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus TAXODIUM, Rich. The bald cypress has two sister species in the genus Taxodium. One, a shrub, is native to China; the other, a large tree, to Mexico. ..."

2. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a cypress, but supplies the " cypress " wood of American commerce. It is perhaps best to confine the name ..."

3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"The genus Taxodium is now known by two species from North America, of which T. distichum dates from the Upper division of the Laramie beds, and occurs also ..."

4. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"... but the trees themselves, rather than their woods, are valued in the United States. The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a Cypress ..."

5. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a Cypress, but the trees of this species supply the "cypress wood" of American commerce. ..."

6. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent, James Veitch & Sons (1900)
"It was separated from Cupressus by the elder Richard* who founded upon it the genus Taxodium now firmly established notwithstanding the attempts of Mirbel ..."

7. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The single species of the genus Taxodium is not a Cypress, but the trees of this species supply the "cypress wood" of American commerce. ..."

8. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"... an English botanist, who referred it to the genus Taxodium, naming it Taxodium sempervirens, that is the evergreen Taxodium to distinguish it from the ..."

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