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ahuehuete, n.|ˌæhweɪˈhweɪteɪ|
[Mex. Sp., ad. Nahuatl ahuehuetl, f. huehue old + atl water.]
A Mexican swamp cypress, Taxodium mucronatum (family Taxodiaceae), which can attain great girth and is important for the production of medicinal resins and timber.
1828G. F. Lyon Jrnl. Residence Mexico II. ix. 113 A white hoary lichen..hangs like long waving locks from all the gigantic branches, and gives to these trees a most indescribably majestic appearance. The Baron de Humboldt considers these ‘Ahüahüetes’ [sic] as the Cupressus disticha Linn. 1893W. Thompson tr. A. Garcíay Cubas's Mexico 143 The ahuehuetes (Taxodium distichum [sic]). 1965J. Didion in Sat. Even. Post 14 Aug. 78 There had been ahuehuete trees in Durango; a waterfall, rattlesnakes. 1990T. Christensen tr. La Desdichada in Fuentes's Constancia & Other Stories 105 The pirul and the ahuehuete trees, calla lilies. |