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say it: si-KWOY-uh
sequoia is a noun meaning "either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae". It is pronounced /sɪˈkwɔɪə/ — si-KWOY-uh. It carries one recorded sense.
either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sequoia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.