See Also: taxodium(dictionary)

Persia (sh) and taxodium (iou)


Persia (sh)




Historical name for a region roughly coterminous with modern Iran.

The term was used for centuries, chiefly in the West, and originally described a region of southern Iran formerly known as Persis or Parsa. Parsa was the name of an Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into the area งใ 1000 BC; the use of the name was gradually extended by the ancient Greeks and Other Western peoples to apply to the whole Iranian plateau. The people of Iran have always called their country Iran, and in 1935 the government requested that the name Iran be used instead of Persia.


taxodium (iou)



taxodium noun. M19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Greek taxos, Latin taxus yew: see -ODE1.]
Either of two N. American coniferous trees constituting the genus Taxodium, the bald cypress, T. distichum, of the southern US, and T. mucronatum, of Mexico.