AHUEHUETE - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Noun

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

Categories: Montezuma cypress, Mexican swamp cypress, Taxodium mucronatum

Tule tree, Ahuehuete

The word "ahuehuete" was borrowed from Spanish ahuehuete.

Some English words are 'fossil words'—they only survive in idioms or fixed phrases.