What is another word for redwoods?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɛdwʊdz] (IPA)

Redwoods are tall and majestic trees that are a renowned feature of the forests in some parts of North America. They are also called giant sequoias, which aptly describes their colossal size. Another synonym for redwoods is sequoiadendrons, which is derived from the scientific name for these trees - sequoiadendron giganteum. These trees are also referred to as Sierra redwoods, owing to their presence in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Coast redwoods are another synonym that describes the redwoods found along the Pacific coast of the United States. A less common synonym for redwoods is Wellingtonia, named after the Duke of Wellington, which was the name given to these trees in Europe after their discovery.

What are the hypernyms for Redwoods?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Redwoods

He sat still a few minutes, and then went on slowly beneath the towering redwoods and cedars until he came out of the forest, and saw the sunlight stream down on the shingled roof of Bonavista close ahead.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
So Alix said nothing when Cherry went to the window to-night, and knelt at it, looking out into the redwoods, and breathing the piney air.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
The redwoods turned gray, and then dark green, the fog stirred, and a first shaft of bright sunlight struck across a shoulder of the hills, and pierced the shadows about the brown bungalow.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris

Famous quotes with Redwoods

  • Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
    Aldo Leopold
  • The sole religious orthodoxy permitted in our public schools is the separation of paper from plastic. Not so many miles from this beach, great-grandchildren of westering pioneers chain themselves to redwoods, martyrs of the new animism.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • At the big Georgia paper mill the saboteur was obviously a chemist. Some kind of catalyst was substituted for a drum of regular sizing solution and vast billowing waves of corrosive fumes ruined the plant. Anonymous calls to a local TV station claimed it had been done to preserve trees. The same day, in northern California, signs were posted on a stand of redwoods that the governor had authorized for lumbering: about two hundred of the last six hundred in the state. The signs said: FOR EVERY TREE YOU KILL ONE OF YOU WILL DIE TOO. The promise was carried out with Schmiesser machine-pistols. The actual score was eighteen people for seventeen trees. Close enough.
    John Brunner

Related words: pacific redwood, redwood forest, sequoia sempervirens, sequoia gigantea, coast redwood, giant sequoia, sequoia vernalis, sequoia sempervirens tree

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