sequoia

See also: Sequoia, sequóia, and séquoia

English

lower trunk of Sequoia sempervirens

Etymology

From translingual Sequoia (“genus”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈkwɔɪ.ə/

Noun

sequoia (plural sequoias)

1. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron.
2. Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.

Synonyms

• (Sequoiadendron giganteum): giant sequoia, Sierra redwood
• (Sequoia sempervirens): redwood (in California), coast redwood, California redwood

Derived terms

• metasequoia

Translations

tree

• Armenian: սեկվոյա (hy) (sekvoya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅杉 (zh), 红杉 (zh) (hóngshān)

• Czech: sekvoj f
• Dutch: sequoia (nl), reuzenpijnboom
• Finnish: punapuu (fi)
• French: séquoia (fr) m
• German: Mammutbaum (de) m
• Italian: sequoia (it) f
• Japanese: セコイア (sekoia)
• Occitan: sequòia f

• Persian: سکویا‎ (sekoyá)
• Polish: sekwoja (pl) f
• Portuguese: sequoia (pt) f
• Romanian: sequoia (ro) m
• Russian: секво́йя (ru) f (sekvójja), кра́сное де́рево (ru) n (krásnoje dérevo)
• Spanish: secuoya (es) f
• Swahili: sekwoya
• Swedish: sekvoja (sv) c, rödvedsträd (sv) n
• Volapük: gianasekvoyad
• Walloon: secoya (wa) m
• Welsh: secwoia f

References

• Sequoiadendron giganteum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sequoiadendron giganteum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sequoiadendron giganteum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sequoia sempervirens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sequoia sempervirens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sequoia sempervirens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Italian

Noun

sequoia f (plural sequoie)

1. sequoia (tree)

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sequóia (superseded)

Noun

sequoia f (plural sequoias)

1. (sequoia); redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, a very large coniferous tree of North America)