BIG TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does big tree mean? 

• BIG TREE (noun)
  The noun BIG TREE has 1 sense:

1. extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism

  Familiarity information: BIG TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIG TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

big tree; giant sequoia; Sequoia gigantea; Sequoia Wellingtonia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sierra redwood

Hypernyms ("big tree" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("big tree" is a member of...):

genus Sequoiadendron; Sequoiadendron (giant sequoias; sometimes included in the genus Sequoia; until recently placed in the Taxodiaceae)

 Context examples 

The Scarecrow, who was in the lead, finally discovered a big tree with such wide-spreading branches that there was room for the party to pass underneath.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There they found a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and close by the trunk something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but they could not make out what it was.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then the Lion put his strong front legs against the tree and pushed with all his might, and slowly the big tree tipped and fell with a crash across the ditch, with its top branches on the other side.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)