Sequoia

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  • noun. The giant sequoia.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron.
  • noun. Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae
  • Word Usage
    "He showed me simulated flythroughs of a giant sequoia forest and a forest of smaller trees created using data from the ECHIDNA on his computer."