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redwood
noun 5name 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
last
VERB + REDWOOD
remember
REDWOOD + NOUN
bumper, cars, deck, grove, tree, trees, william, wokingham
Definitions
noun
1
A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
a redwood grove
This redwood deck will last forever.
2
Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines, the ocean's Trident submarines, lemons, limes and tangerines. I remember this...
The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
3
Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
This planter is made of redwood.
4
Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
5
A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
name
1
A surname.
In government their last two Welsh Secretaries were John Redwood (Wokingham) and William Hague (Richmond).
2
A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
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Synonyms
noun — either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a
- sequoia
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Idioms & Phrases
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a redwood grove
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This redwood deck will last forever.
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I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines, the ocean's Trident submarines, lemons, limes and tangerines. I remember this...
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In government their last two Welsh Secretaries were John Redwood (Wokingham) and William Hague (Richmond).
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Are you superior to a thousand-year-old olive tree or redwood tree?
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Redwood trees are some of the tallest and oldest trees in the world.
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