california redwood | (n) lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats, Syn. coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens |
panama redwood | (n) hard heavy red wood of a quira tree, Syn. quira |
panama redwood tree | (n) large erect shrub of Colombia having large odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant yellow flowers, Syn. Panama redwood, Platymiscium pinnatum |
redwood | (n) the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees |
redwood national park | (n) a national park in California featuring a redwood forest and Pacific Ocean coastline |
amboyna | (n) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus, Syn. Andaman redwood |
giant sequoia | (n) extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism, Syn. Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia Wellingtonia, big tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sierra redwood |
metasequoia | (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, Syn. dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostrodoides |
red shrubby penstemon | (n) low branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branches; coastal ranges and foothills of northern California, Syn. redwood penstemon |
sequoia | (n) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae, Syn. redwood |
taxodiaceae | (n) coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems, Syn. redwood family, subfamily Taxodiaceae |