sequoia gigantea

Questions about sequoia gigantea

What does sequoia gigantea mean?

sequoia gigantea means "extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism".

What is another word for sequoia gigantea?

Close synonyms include giant sequoia, big tree, Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sequoia Wellingtonia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sequoia gigantea a common word?

sequoia gigantea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.