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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae;
[syn: sequoia, redwood]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sequoia \Se*quoi"a\, n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. Sequoia gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and Sequoia sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sequoia n 1: either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae [syn: sequoia, redwood]