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Definition of Sequoia gigantea

Sequoia gigantea
Wellingtonia Wel`ling*to"ni*a, n. [NL. So named after the Duke of Wellington.] (Bot.) A name given to the ``big trees' (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.
Sequoia gigantea
Sequoiene Se*quoi"["e]ne, n. (Chem.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California ``big tree' (Sequoia gigantea).

Meaning of Sequoia gigantea from wikipedia

- Press. Chase, J. Smeaton (1911). "Sequoia gigantea, Also called S. washingtoniana or S. wellingtonia (Big-tree, Sequoia, Redwood)". Cone-bearing Trees of...
- Sequoia sempervirens (/səˈkwɔɪ.ə ˌsɛmpərˈvaɪrənz/) is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated...
- was named Sequoyah by James Brown in 1968. The Sequoia trees in California were named Sequoia gigantea in 1847 by Austrian biologist Stephan Endlicher...
- individual trees Redwood Regional Park East Bay Regional Park District "Sequoia gigantea is of an ancient and distinguished family". Nps.gov. February 2, 2007...
- Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia...
- Sierra Club. Muir, John (August 1876). "On the Post-glacial History of Sequoia Gigantea". Proceedings of the American ****ociation for the Advancement of Science...
- Strongylura gigantea, the needlefish, a marine fish species Sequoia gigantea, a synonym for Sequoiadendron giganteum, a m****ive tree species Gigantea (disambiguation)...
- communities dominated by huge trees (e.g., giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron gigantea; redwood, Sequoia sempervirens), unusual ecological phenomena, occur...
- woods. At 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m) across it is the largest section of a Sequoia gigantea in Britain. The woodlands were first laid out by Lord Orkney in the...
- diversity during the early cenozoic. The three redwood subfamily genera are Sequoia from coastal California and Oregon, Sequoiadendron from California's Sierra...