METASEQUOIA

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Meaning:

Large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China

Synonyms:

dawn redwood; metasequoia; Metasequoia glyptostrodoides

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("metasequoia" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Holonyms ("metasequoia" is a member of...):

genus Metasequoia (genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae)

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