sequoia

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There in peace and plenty are the sequoia, the bamboo, and the deodar.

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  1. noun See redwood.
  2. noun Giant sequoia.

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  • Jack Williamson, a writer, critic, and teacher and a warm-hearted, loving, and beloved human being, who lived on with unending creativity and unimpaired intellect from the early years of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, seemingly as ageless as a sequoia, has turned out to be mortal after all. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 03 - March
  • The sequoia was host to a family of fire-backed eagles and several million carpenter ants. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • It is unintuitive, even for scientists, to accept that our species, which is unique in so many ways, has the same origins as a shark or a sequoia. —  The Harvard Crimson :: News
  • Medium sized trees usually don't exceed 15-20 feet and tall trees can break into the stratosphere like the sequoia —  Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas
  • Then occurred to Godfrey the idea of constructing a poultry-house in some other sequoia, as, to keep them out of the common room, he was building up a hurdle of brushwood. —  Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
 

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  1. New Latin Sequoia, genus name, after Sequoya.

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  1. New Latin (Endlicher, 1847), named from Sequoiah, Sequo Yah (also called George Guess), an Indian of the Cherokee tribe, who invented an alphabet and taught it to his tribe.
 

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/səˈkwɔɪə/
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