redwood : Idioms & Phrases


andaman redwood

  • noun mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
    amboyna.
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california redwood

  • noun lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats
    Sequoia sempervirens; California redwood.
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coast redwood

  • noun lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats
    Sequoia sempervirens; California redwood.
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dawn redwood

  • noun large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China
    Metasequoia glyptostrodoides; metasequoia.
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panama redwood

  • noun hard heavy red wood of a quira tree
    quira.
  • noun large erect shrub of Colombia having large odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant yellow flowers
    Panama redwood; Platymiscium pinnatum.
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panama redwood tree

  • noun large erect shrub of Colombia having large odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant yellow flowers
    Panama redwood; Platymiscium pinnatum.
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redwood family

  • noun coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems
    subfamily Taxodiaceae; Taxodiaceae.
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redwood national park

  • noun a national park in California featuring a redwood forest and Pacific Ocean coastline
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redwood penstemon

  • noun low branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branches; coastal ranges and foothills of northern California
    red shrubby penstemon.
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sierra redwood

  • noun extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
    Sequoia gigantea; big tree; giant sequoia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sequoia Wellingtonia.
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