Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

    a redwood grove

    This redwood deck will last forever.

    the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees

  2. (countable)Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.

  3. (uncountable)Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

    This planter is made of redwood.

    Mammutbaum

    кра́сное де́ревоkrásnoje dérevo, секво́йяsekvójja

  4. (countable)A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.

  5. (uncountable)Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.

  6. (UK, obsolete, uncountable)Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The bear roared in the forest of redwoods.

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  2. Are you superior to a thousand-year-old olive tree or redwood tree?

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  3. Redwood trees are some of the tallest and oldest trees in the world.

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Translations

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Sequoia sempervirens:
Deutsch
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Sequoia sempervirens:

Origin

From red + wood.

From red + wood.

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Forms

plural: redwoods
Singularredwood
Pluralredwoods

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • wood of either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae:sequoia
  • either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae:sequoia

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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