REDWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redwood mean? 

• REDWOOD (noun)
  The noun REDWOOD has 2 senses:

1. the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees

2. either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae

  Familiarity information: REDWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("redwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("redwood" is a substance of...):

redwood; sequoia (either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

redwood; sequoia

Hypernyms ("redwood" is a kind of...):

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

Meronyms (substance of "redwood"):

redwood (the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "redwood"):

California redwood; coast redwood; Sequoia sempervirens (lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats)

big tree; giant sequoia; Sequoia gigantea; Sequoia Wellingtonia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sierra redwood (extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism)

Holonyms ("redwood" is a member of...):

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)

 Context examples 

It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You see that blasted redwood? Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Walt won in the end, and his victory was most probably due to the fact that he was a man, though Madge averred that they would have had another quarter of a mile of gurgling brook, and at least two west winds sighing through their redwoods, had Wait properly devoted his energies to song-transmutation and left Wolf alone to exercise a natural taste and an unbiassed judgment.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain- meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I sing a song, and thanks to the magazine editors I transmute my song into a waft of the west wind sighing through our redwoods, into a murmur of waters over mossy stones that sings back to me another song than the one I sang and yet the same song wonderfully—er—transmuted.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)