sequoia
/sɪˈkwɔɪə
/noun
A redwood tree, especially the California redwood.The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress....
- There are these trees called sequoias in the west of my country and they grow to be about as big as those pines.
- Visit here on Dec. 14 and participate in the annual trek to the General Grant Tree, the third-largest sequoia in the United States.
Origin
From modern Latin Sequoia (genus name), from Sequoya, the name of the Cherokee Indian who invented the Cherokee syllabary.
Rhymes
- all-pervasiveness
- all-play-all
- all-points
- all-points bulletin
- all-power
- all-powerful
- all-powerfully
- all-powerfulness
- all-present
- all present and correct
- all-Pro
- all-purpose
- all-purpose flour
- all-rag
- all-red
- all right
- allrightnick
- all-rightnik
- allrightnik
- all risks
- all-roader
- all roads lead to Rome
- all round
- all-rounder
- all-round man