SEQUOIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sequoia mean? 

• SEQUOIA (noun)
  The noun SEQUOIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SEQUOIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEQUOIA (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("sequoia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (substance of "sequoia"):

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

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

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 ("sequoia" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

Trees such as the giant sequoia can only achieve their vast heights because of these secondary cell walls, which provide a rigid structure around the cells in their trunks.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)