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red·wood

(rĕd′wo͝od′)

a. A very tall, evergreen coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) native to the coastal ranges of southern Oregon and central and northern California, having thick bark, leaves that are needlelike or scalelike, and small cones.

b. The soft reddish decay-resistant wood of this tree. Also called coast redwood.

2. Either of two similar trees, the giant sequoia or the dawn redwood.

3. Any of various woods having a reddish color or yielding a red dye.

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redwood

(ˈrɛdˌwʊd)

(Plants) a giant coniferous tree, Sequoia sempervirens, of coastal regions of California, having reddish fibrous bark and durable timber: family Taxodiaceae. The largest specimen is over 120 metres (360 feet) tall. See also sequoia

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red•wood

(ˈrɛdˌwʊd)

n.

1. a coniferous tree, Sequoia sempervirens, of the bald cypress family, native to California, noted for its great height.

2. its valuable brownish red timber.

3. any of various trees yielding a reddish wood.

4. any tree whose wood produces a red dyestuff.

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red·wood

(rĕd′wo͝od′)

A very tall, cone-bearing evergreen tree that grows along the coast of northwest California and southern Oregon. Redwoods can grow to a height of over 300 feet (91.4 meters).

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Noun	1.	redwood - the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees sequoia, redwood - either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
	2.	redwood - either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae sequoia Cupressaceae, cypress family, family Cupressaceae - cypresses and junipers and many cedars cypress - wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus redwood - the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees 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

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sequoia

redwood

[ˈredwʊd] N (= tree) → secoya f

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redwood

[ˈrɛdwʊd] n (also Californian redwood) (= tree) → séquoia m

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redwood

[ˈrɛdˌwʊd] n → sequoia

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He is always poring over his books and writings; and Miss Redwood, at her great age, is in bed half the day.

"Is Sir Jervis Redwood one of Miss Emily's old friends?" he asked.

He looked after Sir Jervis Redwood's flighty housekeeper, completely forgetting the purpose which had brought him thus far on the way to his lodgings.

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Dawn caught us on the northern brow, and in the gray light we dropped down through chaparral into redwood canyons deep and warm with the breath of passing summer.

All was garmented by vegetation, from tiny maiden-hair and gold-back ferns to mighty redwood and Douglas spruces.

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He found a hawk's nest on the lightning-shattered tipmost top of a six-foot redwood. And to complete it all his horse stumbled upon several large broods of half-grown quail, and the air was filled with the thrum of their flight.

He now found himself in a nook of several acres, where the oak and manzanita and madrono gave way to clusters of stately redwoods. Against the foot of a steep-sloped knoll he came upon a magnificent group of redwoods that seemed to have gathered about a tiny gurgling spring.

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There were divers shelves of books, and the massive furniture he had made from redwood, as he had made the shakes for the roof.

The redwood canyons and great cliffs of the Santa Lucia Mountains fascinated Saxon; but she remembered what Hafler had told her of the summer fogs which hid the sun sometimes for a week or two at a time, and which lingered for months.

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Redwood." The gentlemen he spoke of were the other senior partners of the firm; for, as was always the case with legal associations of old standing in New York, all the partners named on the office letter-head were long since dead; and Mr.

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She waited, in the silence which followed, her eyes fixed upon the light that filtered down through the lofty boughs and bathed the great redwood trunks in mellow warmth.

Without speaking, without further looking at each other, they turned the horses' heads and took the narrow trail that wound down through the sombre redwood aisles and across the open glades to the pasture-lands below.