redwood
See also: Redwood
English
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Etymology
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[edit]redwood (plural redwoods)
- (countable, uncountable, USDA-preferred term) A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
- a redwood grove
- This redwood deck will last forever.
- (countable) Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
- 1988 November 8, R.E.M., “I Remember California”, in Green:
- I remember redwood trees,
bumper cars and wolverines,
the ocean's Trident submarines,
lemons, limes and tangerines.
I remember this...
- 2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2025:
- The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
- (uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
- This planter is made of redwood.
- (uncountable, British, obsolete) Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
- (countable) A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
- (uncountable) Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
Derived terms
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[edit]Sequoia sempervirens
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any tree of genus Sequoia
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