Bot. [mod.L., f. Gr. τάξος, L. taxus yew: see -ODE.] An American genus of coniferous trees, comprising the bald cypress, T. distichum, of the United States, and the Mexican cypress, T. mucronatum.
1836. J. Mitford, Lett. & Remin. (1891), 82. You will outlive all the Ba-o-babs and taxodiums in the world.
