GIANT SEQUOIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giant sequoia mean? 

• GIANT SEQUOIA (noun)
  The noun GIANT SEQUOIA has 1 sense:

1. extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism

  Familiarity information: GIANT SEQUOIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIANT SEQUOIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

big tree; giant sequoia; Sequoia gigantea; Sequoia Wellingtonia; Sequoiadendron giganteum; Sierra redwood

Hypernyms ("giant sequoia" is a kind of...):

redwood; sequoia (either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae)

Holonyms ("giant sequoia" is a member of...):

genus Sequoiadendron; Sequoiadendron (giant sequoias; sometimes included in the genus Sequoia; until recently placed in the Taxodiaceae)

 Context examples 

Trees such as the giant sequoia can only achieve their vast heights because of these secondary cell walls, which provide a rigid structure around the cells in their trunks.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)