noun.
Either of two similar trees, the redwood or the dawn redwood.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A genus of coniferous trees, of the tribe Abietineæ and subtribe Taxodinæ.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the “big tree” of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.