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REDWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae

Synonyms:

redwood; sequoia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

Meronyms (substance of "redwood"):

redwood (the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "redwood"):

California redwood; coast redwood; Sequoia sempervirens (lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats)

big tree; giant sequoia; Sequoia gigantea; Sequoia Wellingtonia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sierra redwood (extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism)

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

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("redwood" is a substance of...):

redwood; sequoia (either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae)

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