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redwood

UK/ˈɹɛdwʊd/US/ˈɹɛdwʊd/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,463 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: redwoods

A redwood is one of the tallest trees on earth, with soft red bark. A coast redwood, a grove of redwoods, stand under the redwoods.

The tallest known tree is a coast redwood in California at over one hundred and fifteen metres, and the species can live two thousand years. The thick bark resists fire and insects, which is a large part of why any of them are still standing.

Tuxyso, Acroterion, Wouterhagens, Bubblesorg · CC BY 4.0

Definitions of redwood

  1. 1nounredwoodA very tall tree with soft red bark.B2+

    “We walked through a forest of giant redwoods in northern California.”

redwood is a tree.

Where it comes from

Red plus wood, for the colour of the timber and the bark. The name is American and dates from the nineteenth century.

From red + wood.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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redwood in the wild

  • The parks' 139,000 acres preserve 45 percent of all remaining old-growth coast redwood forests.

    Redwood National and State Parks

  • Other common names include coastal redwood and California redwood.

    Sequoia sempervirens

  • Here, the term redwood on its own refers to the species covered in this article but not to the other two species.

    Sequoia sempervirens

  • While the coast redwood and the giant redwood are found in the western United States, the dawn redwood is known from China.

    Sequoioideae

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.