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redwood
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae [syn: sequoia ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "wood that has a red hue," from red (adj.1) + wood (n.). Of various types of New World trees that yield such wood, from 1716; specifically of the California Sequoia sempervirens from 1819. In Scottish English 16c.-18c. the same word as an adjective ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 5844 Housing Units (2000): 2529 Land area (2000): 4.840382 sq. miles (12.536531 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.063713 sq. miles (0.165017 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.904095 sq. miles (12.701548 sq. km) FIPS code: 61250 Located within: ...
Usage examples of redwood.
Kids were in town from all over the northern counties to compete on these intricately mortised masterpiece alleys, dating back to the high tide of the logging business in these parts, when the big houses framed all in redwood had gone up and legendary carpenters had appeared descending from rain-slick stagecoaches, geniuses with wood who could build you anything from a bowling alley to a Carpenter Gothic outhouse.
Nor that a sweep-winged parafoil had narrowly missed a redwood tree while banking upward from a school playground near Soquel, California.
All the Sonoma and Mendocino redwoods, with the pineries of Oregon and Washington Territory thrown in, would not make such a blaze as that.
Honda shot forward, rattled and splashed across the ditch, and slammed into the trunk of the redwood.
All rights relating to the interest of Ted Koehler in Canada and the reversionary territories are controlled by Bienstock Publishing Company on behalf of Redwood Music.
The swamper at Redwood Bayou, getting the place ready for lunch, disappeared into the back where the phone was as soon as Zoyd came in the door.
During the meal, as we sit around a large redwood dinner table, Neil is wholly uncurious about my visit.
Ryan said absently, trying to get some relief from the rain by standing beneath a second, unfelled mock redwood.
Congo for many generations exploiting the resources for a lucrative European market for redwood, camwood powder, wax, ivory, tin, copper, lead, and palm oil.
The ground was carpeted with wet redwood needles on which the tires spun before gripping, but not enough rain had fallen to churn the earth into mud.
Ahead of us, at the lower end of the patio, rose the small adobe building with the peaked redwood roof that held the Cordova art collection.
Redwing, with the enthusiastic assistance of Erin Lafferty, as well as the sous-chef labours of Desis One and Two, created a multinational barbecue on the redwood porch.
Only a few stands of redwoods and Atlantean pines declared that the Hesperian Gulf lay just a few miles to the west.
I saw that morning: redwood, oak and madrone standing brilliantly outlined against a deep blue sky, meadows and grasslands teaming with field mice and other rodents, redtailed hawks circling overhead.
More leaping tree squirrels, more ruddy madronos and majestic oaks, more fairy circles of redwoods, and, still beside the singing stream, they passed a gate by the roadside.