Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The giant sequoia.
- noun Either of two similar trees, the redwood or the dawn redwood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coniferous trees, of the tribe Abietineæ and subtribe Taxodinæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species,
Sequoia Washingtoniana , syn.S. gigantea , the “big tree” of California, andS. sempervirens , the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Sequoiadendron giganteum, a
coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genusSequoia , now placed in Sequoiadendron. - noun Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The General Sherman sequoia in Sequoia National Park is the largest tree in the country and the world with a score of 1,290.
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Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011
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Why not stick to protecting wild places and wild creatures -- like sea turtles and sequoia trees?
Michael Brune: Why Do Sea Turtles Need Solar Panels? Michael Brune 2011
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He showed me simulated flythroughs of a giant sequoia forest and a forest of smaller trees created using data from the ECHIDNA on his computer.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Mapping the Forest and the Trees: A Visit With Remote Sensing Expert Alan Strahler Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011
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Why not stick to protecting wild places and wild creatures -- like sea turtles and sequoia trees?
Michael Brune: Why Do Sea Turtles Need Solar Panels? Michael Brune 2011
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The General Sherman sequoia in Sequoia National Park is the largest tree in the country and the world with a score of 1,290.
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Richard had turned from O'Mare's records of his accounts to mull over a peculiarly fantastic sketch (mermaids, a sequoia forest, a flock of doves) that O'Mare had recently proposed for the bar wall of Maxies 'Club De Luxe, when the street door suddenly flew open and a strange character stepped in.
The Secret Animal 2010
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Instead he openly barked on the fast-growing sequoia of Stalinist dictatorship.
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Most unsettling of all is a portrait by a colleague in which Muybridge hunches, scowling with paranoia, at the base of a patriarchal sequoia, apparently ready to wriggle into a cavity between its roots.
aceacetwothree commented on the word sequoia
Shortest word that uses all 5 vowels.
December 10, 2006
skipvia commented on the word sequoia
How about "eutopia?"
October 3, 2007
oroboros commented on the word sequoia
Eutopia is shown as obsolete. Sequoia is the shortest common word to contain all vowels according to Will Shortz (intro to "Wordplay: A curious dictionary of language oddities" by Chris Cole).
May 17, 2008