GENUS METASEQUOIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Metasequoia mean? 

• GENUS METASEQUOIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS METASEQUOIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae

  Familiarity information: GENUS METASEQUOIA used as a noun is very rare.

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• GENUS METASEQUOIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Metasequoia" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "genus Metasequoia"):

dawn redwood; metasequoia; Metasequoia glyptostrodoides (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)

Holonyms ("genus Metasequoia" is a member of...):

Cupressaceae; cypress family; family Cupressaceae (cypresses and junipers and many cedars)