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    METASEQUOIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 Chinaplay

    Synonyms:

    dawn redwood; metasequoia; Metasequoia glyptostrodoides

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("metasequoia" is a kind of...):

    conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

    Holonyms ("metasequoia" is a member of...):

    genus Metasequoia (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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