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sequoia
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae [syn: redwood ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sequoia \Se*quoi"a\, n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana , syn. S. gigantea , the ``big tree'' of California, ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae . The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southwestern ...
Usage examples of sequoia.
All these homeostatic equilibria had been maintained by Gaia, the Earth mother in whom all living things, from sequoias to algae, whales to viruses, had their being.
These were the crowns of podocarpus trees, or podos, the largest trees in Africa, nearly as large as California sequoias.
Despite their mastery of time and space, the Cocytans could only wait and watch, as frustrated as any snail seeking to circumnavigate a sequoia.
Bettik also informed me that there was a single, gigantic Templar treeship in orbit now -- the Sequoia Sempervirens -- and that it was captained by the True Voice of the Startree Ket Rosteen and was carrying several of our old friends, including Rachel, Theo, the Dorje Phamo, the Dalai Lama, and the Ousters Navson Hamnim and Sian Quintana Ka'an.
Their whales were the size of first-day tadpoles, their sequoias were like antler lichen, and so on down the line.
Huge trees that would have been dwarfed only by the sequoias and redwoods of California rose all around them.
There were great forests covering the temperate regions, where stands of giant sequoia shaded pine understories.
At last I entered the dark and mysterious groves of the giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum, according to my brochure).
They are to us as a giant sequoia tree is to a chittering squirrel.
There were those who would not believe it, just as they were unable to believe that the giant sequoia had ever been a green sprout.
The roots of the Amazonian trees, like those of the giant sequoia of California, are extremely long —.
The roots of the Amazonian trees, like those of the giant sequoia of California, are extremely long—.
A warning light began to flash, and one of the launch canisters began to lower itself down to the deck, like a giant sequoia slowly falling to the forest floor.
Even Black had relaxed and told an exceedingly foul joke involving a proctologist, a giant sequoia, and tree-ring dating.
The line of democration was, I consider, the line along which the giant sequoias appeared.