redwood

See also: Redwood

English

Etymology

red +‎ wood

Noun

redwood (plural redwoods)

1. (countable, uncountable, USDA-preferred term) A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

   a redwood grove

   This redwood deck will last forever.

2. (countable) Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
3. (uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

   This planter is made of redwood.

4. (uncountable, British, obsolete) Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
5. (countable) A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
6. (uncountable) Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

Derived terms

• California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
• coast redwood, coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
• dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)
• giant redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
• Japanese redwood (Cryptomeria japonica)
• Redwood City
• Redwood County
• Redwood Falls
• Sierra redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

 

Translations

Sequoia sempervirens

• Bulgarian: вечнозелена секвоя f (večnozelena sekvoja)
• Catalan: sequoia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅杉／红杉 (zh) (hóngshān)

• Czech: sekvoj f
• Finnish: punapuu (fi)
• French: séquoia (fr) m
• German: Mammutbaum (de) m
• Italian: sequoia (it) f
• Japanese: セコイア (sekoia)
• Kashaya: qʼasi·l
• Kazakh: секвойя (sekvoiä)
• Ohlone:

  Northern Ohlone: mak-summenikma

• Polish: sekwoja wieczniezielona f
• Portuguese: sequoia (pt) f, sequoia-vermelha f
• Russian: кра́сное де́рево (ru) n (krásnoje dérevo), секво́йя (ru) f (sekvójja)
• Southern Ohlone: hop
• Spanish: secoya gigante
• Swedish: sekvoja (sv) c, sequoia (sv) c
• Welsh: cochwydd Califfornia f pl

any tree of genus Sequoia

• Welsh: cochwydd f pl