Definition of Sequoia sempervirens

1. Noun. Lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats.

Exact synonyms: California Redwood, Coast Redwood
Group relationships: Genus Sequoia
Generic synonyms: Redwood, Sequoia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sequoia Sempervirens

Septembrists
Septembrize
Septembrized
Septembrizes
Septembrizing
Septic
Septobasidiaceae
Septobasidium
Septobasidium pseudopedicellatum
Septuagesima
Septuagesima Sunday
Septuagint
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia Wellingtonia
Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia sempervirens (current term)
Sequoiadendron
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Sequoya
Sequoyah
Seraiki
Seraphina
Seraphine
Serax
Serb
Serbia
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbian
Serbian salad
Serbian salads

Literary usage of Sequoia sempervirens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Sequoia sempervirens Endlicher and 5. gigantea Decaisne are the only living representatives of a once larger and very widely distributed genus of the ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Sequoia sempervirens was discovered by Archibald Menzies in 1795, rediscovered by David Douglas in 1831. and soon after by Dr. Coulter. ..."

3. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"Sequoia sempervirens Endl. Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) Redwood (local and common Sequoia, California Redwood, name). Coast Redwood (local). ..."

4. Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University by Ethelyn Maria Tucker, Charles Sprague Sargent (1917)
"On heteromorphic organs of Sequoia sempervirens. [San Francisco. 1896. ... Peirce, GJ Studies on the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens End! ..."

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