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Montezuma

[ US /ˌmɑntɪˈzumə/ ]
NOUN
  1. evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae

How To Use Montezuma In A Sentence

  • We follow a path through the Montezuma Basin, then cut across slopes of scree.
  • Montezuma is their best-known emperor, though not their last. Mexico's Name
  • The "gallant failure" had been the biggest botch since the Kabul Retreat, thanks to the idiot Maximilian, who was damned if he'd be rescued, so there, and I'd come off by the skin of my chattering teeth and the good offices of that gorgeous little fire-eater, Princess Aggie Salm-Salm, and Jesus Montero's gang of unwashed bandits who were on hand only because Jesus thought I knew where Montezuma's treasure was cached, more fool he. Watershed
  • Montezuma, the last of the Aztec kings, was forced to have poinsettias caravanned from the south into what now is Mexico City because the plant could not grow in such high altitudes. How the Mexican fire plant became the poinsettia
  • We follow a path through the Montezuma Basin, then cut across slopes of scree.
  • Or the meeting between the Spanish explorer Cortez and the Aztec king Montezuma.
  • The route takes one high into the surrounding mountains, through a magnificent forest of Montezuma pines, with spectacular views of the azure lake far below.
  • Trips to refuges like Montezuma or Jamaica Bay are revelatory, but ultimately, we're trespassers, traipsing callously through the beasts' lairs.
  • In contrast, the Montezuma Oropendola shares few vocal characteristics with other oropendolas, including P. viridis and G. bifasciatus.
  • Pilpatoe, who entered his camp with a numerous retinue, and informed him that they were persons entrusted with the government of that province by a great monarch, whom they called Montezuma, and that they were sent to inquire what his intentions were in visiting their coast, and to offer him what assistance he might need. Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
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