Definition of Genus sequoia

1. Noun. Redwoods; until recently considered a genus of a separate family Taxodiaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sequoia

genus Sebastodes
genus Secale
genus Sedum
genus Seismosaurus
genus Seiurus
genus Selaginella
genus Selar
genus Selenarctos
genus Selene
genus Selenicereus
genus Selenipedium
genus Senecio
genus Senna
genus Sepia
genus Septobasidium
genus Sequoia
genus Sequoiadendron
genus Serenoa
genus Sericocarpus
genus Serinus
genus Seriola
genus Seriphidium
genus Seriphus
genus Serranus
genus Serrasalmus
genus Serratia
genus Serratula
genus Sertularia
genus Sesamum
genus Sesbania

Literary usage of Genus sequoia

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"The genus Sequoia is characterized chiefly by the widely scattering distribution of the resin cells (Fig. 40), but in i". sempervirens there are individual ..."

2. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"Both Sequoias produce shoots from the root after the stem is cut away. The genus Sequoia can be reduced to Athrotaxis,, as shown by Bentham and J. Hooker. ..."

3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"This is a very interesting plant, and undoubtedly a fossil species of the genus Sequoia. 1 have, however, employed the name of ..."

4. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"If we consider the genus Sequoia in the light of the canons of anatomy formulated above, very interesting results are reached. ..."

5. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"The genus Sequoia has two species: Sequoia gigantea (Big Tree) and Sequoia sempervirens (Redwood). The common names are to be used as indicated. ..."

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