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Redwood
name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
"In government their last two Welsh Secretaries were John Redwood (Wokingham) and William Hague (Richmond)."
- 2 A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
Noun
- 1 A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens. countable, uncountable
"a redwood grove"
- 2 the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees wordnet
- 3 Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense. countable
"I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines, the ocean's Trident submarines, lemons, limes and tangerines. I remember this..."
- 4 wood of either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae wordnet
- 5 Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens. uncountable
"This planter is made of redwood."
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- 6 either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae wordnet
- 7 Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris. British, obsolete, uncountable
- 8 A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex. countable
- 9 Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree. uncountable
"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."
Etymology
From red + wood.
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