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Large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones
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metasequoia
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n. (taxlink Metasequioa genus noshow=1), the (vern: dawn redwood), a fast-growing deciduous conifer native to China.
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Metasequoia ( dawn redwood ) is a fast-growing, deciduous tree, and the sole living species, Metasequoia glyptostroboides , is one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. It is native to Lichuan county in the Hubei province of China . Although the ...
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n. 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 [syn: dawn redwood , Metasequoia ...
Usage examples of metasequoia.
He stared out over the flood plain, with its scattered stands of ancestral sycamore and gum, metasequoia and cypress.
There were monkey-puzzle trees that reached almost five hundred feet in height, giant magnolias and sycamores, metasequoias, huge palms, and giant tree ferns.