sierra redwood

Questions about sierra redwood

What does sierra redwood mean?

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

What is another word for sierra redwood?

Close synonyms include giant sequoia, big tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sequoia gigantea, 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 sierra redwood a common word?

sierra redwood 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.