English noun: redwood |
1. | redwood (plant) the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees |
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| Broader (hypernym) | wood |
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| Substance meronym | redwood, sequoia |
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2. | redwood (plant) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae |
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| Synonyms | sequoia |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cypress |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | big tree, California redwood, coast redwood, giant sequoia, Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoia Wellingtonia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sierra redwood |
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| Member meronym | Cupressaceae, cypress family, family Cupressaceae |
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| Substance holonym | redwood |
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