a giant Californian coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, with a wide tapering trunk and thick spongy bark: family Taxodiaceae. It often reaches a height of 90 metres
Also called: giant sequoia, wellingtonia. See also sequoia
big tree in American English
US
a giant California evergreen (Sequoiadendron giganteum) of the baldcypress family, found in the high Sierras and often exceeding 90 m (c. 300 ft) in height; giant sequoia
Examples of 'big tree' in a sentence
big tree
He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.