name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
redwood
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdwʊd/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈɹɛdwɵd/
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Australia, New-Zealand: /ˈɹedwʊd/
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Wales: /ˈɾɛdwʊd/
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Scotland: /ˈɾɛdwʉd/
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Northern-Ireland: /ˈɻɛdwʉd/
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rhymes with -ɛdwʊd
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name
Meaning 2
A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: USDA-preferred term
Examples
- a redwood grove
- This redwood deck will last forever.
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noun
Meaning 4
Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 5
Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- This planter is made of redwood.
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noun
Meaning 6
Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 8
Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sequoia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cypress
Narrower terms: California redwood, coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, giant sequoia, big tree, Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia Wellingtonia
noun
Meaning 10
the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wood
History
Etymology
From red + wood.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: вечнозелена секвоя (večnozelena sekvoja) — Sequoia sempervirens
- Catalan: sequoia — Sequoia sempervirens
- Chinese Mandarin: 紅杉 /红杉 (hóngshān) — Sequoia sempervirens
- Czech: sekvoj — Sequoia sempervirens
- Finnish: punapuu — Sequoia sempervirens
- French: séquoia — Sequoia sempervirens
- German: Mammutbaum — Sequoia sempervirens
- Italian: sequoia — Sequoia sempervirens
- Japanese: セコイア (sekoia) — Sequoia sempervirens
- Kazakh: секвойя (sekvoiä) — Sequoia sempervirens
- Northern Ohlone: mak-summenikma — Sequoia sempervirens
- Southern Ohlone: hop — Sequoia sempervirens
- Polish: sekwoja wieczniezielona — Sequoia sempervirens
- Kashaya: qʼasi·l — Sequoia sempervirens
- Portuguese: sequoia — Sequoia sempervirens
- Portuguese: sequoia-vermelha — Sequoia sempervirens
- Russian: кра́сное де́рево (krásnoje dérevo) — Sequoia sempervirens
- Russian: секво́йя (sekvójja) — Sequoia sempervirens
- Spanish: secoya gigante — Sequoia sempervirens
- Swedish: sekvoja — Sequoia sempervirens
- Swedish: sequoia — Sequoia sempervirens
- Welsh: cochwydd Califfornia — Sequoia sempervirens
- Polish: sekwoja — any tree of genus Sequoia
- Welsh: cochwydd — any tree of genus Sequoia
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