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    SEQUOIA GIGANTEA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Sequoia gigantea" 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 ("Sequoia gigantea" is a member of...):

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

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