Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cone-bearing Chinese tree (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) related to the redwood, having deciduous, flat, opposite leaves and small, globular cones. It is now commonly cultivated in the United States.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Examples
“In between those dawn redwood lower limbs he tucked not just a dick as big—to borrow part of Lenny Bruce’s famous mot—as a baby’s arm, but also, right behind, a pair of cheeks like boneless fresh-dressed roasting turkeys.”
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Living Fossils
Creatures that lived in prehistoric times and still live today (which would be most of them). Loosely interpreted to include animals like the armadillo, which is a surviving genus of a larger group...
coelacanth, horseshoe crab, gingko tree, cycad, horsetail, club moss, shark, jellyfish, giant squid, dawn redwood, cedar wood wasp, glypheoid lobsters and 20 more...
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