SEQUOIA GIGANTEA

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Meaning:

Extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism

Synonyms:

big tree; giant sequoia; Sequoia gigantea; Sequoia Wellingtonia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sierra redwood

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Sequoia gigantea" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Sequoia gigantea" is a member of...):

genus Sequoiadendron; Sequoiadendron (giant sequoias; sometimes included in the genus Sequoia; until recently placed in the Taxodiaceae)

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