Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name much used in Eng land for the big trees of California, which has given way to the earlier name Sequoia under the rule of priority. See
Sequoia (with cut).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name given to the “big trees” (
Sequoia gigantea ) of California, and still used in England. Seesequoia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A large
coniferous tree , Sequoiadendron giganteum fromCalifornia .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After First Duke of Wellington.]
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From the original scientific name, Wellingtonia gigantea, which was invalid because "Wellingtonia" had already been used for another plant. Probably named for the Duke of Wellington, who died the year before.
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