Crossword clues for redwood
redwood
- Massive tree
- Conifer native to California
- California giant
- Very tall tree
- The world's tallest tree is one
- Species of sequoia
- National Park since 1968
- Majestic Muir Woods growth
- Huge tree in California
- Giant North American conifer
- Giant California conifer
- California's -- National Park
- California sight
- Ancient conifer
- California's ___ National Park
- ___ City, California locale named for local flora
- Giant with a big trunk
- 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
- Many a West Coast giant
- Sequoia
- Giant tree
- Giant conifer
- Giant barked 'stop driver!'
- Timber cross we'd erroneously inscribed
- Tall tree
- California's state tree
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redwood \Red"wood`\ (-w[oo^]d`), n. (Bot.)
A gigantic coniferous tree ( Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
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An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, C[ae]salpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium.
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 meant "completely deranged, raving, stark mad," from wood (adj.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) the USDA-preferred term for the species ''Sequoia sempervirens''. 2 (context countable English) any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus ''Sequoia'' in the wide sense. 3 (context uncountable English) the wood of the species ''Sequoia sempervirens''. 4 (context uncountable British obsolete English) Wood of the species ''Pinus sylvestris''.
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]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 277
Land area (2000): 2.035972 sq. miles (5.273143 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.514751 sq. miles (1.333200 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.550723 sq. miles (6.606343 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61016
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 44.300703 N, 75.800489 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13679
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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: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 42.420256 N, 123.381486 W
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Housing Units (2000): 946
Land area (2000): 5.872597 sq. miles (15.209955 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.068575 sq. miles (0.177609 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.941172 sq. miles (15.387564 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61352
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.814750 N, 97.913375 W
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Housing Units (2000): 7230
Land area (2000): 879.726014 sq. miles (2278.479819 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.512176 sq. miles (3.916517 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 881.238190 sq. miles (2282.396336 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.411100 N, 95.237056 W
Headwords:
Redwood, MN
Redwood County
Redwood County, MN
Wikipedia
Redwood is a common name for a group of coniferous trees.
Redwood may also refer to:
Redwood is an album by Lúnasa that was released in 2003 on Green Linnet Records. It was their fourth major release, and their last album on Green Linnet Records.
Redwood (UTA station) may refer to one of two light rail stations in Utah:
- Redwood Junction (UTA station), in the Redwood neighborhood of West Valley City
- West Jordan City Center (UTA station), known as Redwood during construction
Redwood is a historic summer house at 10 Barberry Lane in Bar Harbor, Maine. Designed by William Ralph Emerson and built in 1879, it was the first Shingle style house built in Bar Harbor, and is one of the oldest of the style in the nation. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Redwood are an alternative rock band formed in Birmingham, and based in Guildford, Surrey, England, who were active for the majority of the 1990s before finally splitting up in 2000 after their record label Almo Sounds became defunct. The band consisted of Alistair Cowan (vocals / bass), Rob Blackham (guitar / vocals), Angus Cowan (guitar) and Chris Hughes (drums / vocals).
In 1994 Redwood released their first demo, Head, followed in 1995 by a second demo, Asylum. In November 1997 Redwood released their debut album, Colourblind, described by Allmusic as "an impressive debut". They made several radio appearances, including sessions for Jeff Cooper's 'XS' show, which later became Radio2XS.
In September 2000 Redwood released their second album, Redwood, shortly before splitting up.
Rob Blackham went on to be a producer for, most notably, The Cooper Temple Clause.
Alistair and Angus Cowan have since played two acoustic gigs as Redwood, at the Guildford Festival in 2003 and at Surrey University, in May 2004.
In 2005 Alistair Cowan released his debut solo album, entitled Why Can I See Stars.
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.