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Noun: Tule tree
  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
    "some say the Tule tree is the world's largest single biomass";
    - Ahuehuete

Type of: Mexican swamp cypress, Montezuma cypress

Part of: Mexico, United Mexican States

Encyclopedia: Tule tree