giant sequoia
noun
called also big tree, sequoia
see cone illustration
Examples of giant sequoia in a Sentence
Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
The nonprofit Archangel Tree Archive in Michigan is cloning iconic old-growth tree species, including redwoods and giant sequoias, to create a genetic archive and provide new trees for planting.
—Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
What is special about Kings Canyon National Park? Like its neighbor, Kings Canyon is home to some of the tallest and oldest trees in the world, giant sequoias.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
Sequoia and adjoining Kings Canyon National Park are best known as sanctuaries for towering giant sequoia trees.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
Devastating fires between 2020 and 2021 wiped out roughly 20% of all giant sequoias, which are only found in California.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
In a 1903 gelatin silver print, Roosevelt can be seen beneath a giant sequoia, nearly lost in the gargantuan tree’s striated trunk.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
Unlike species such as giant sequoias and lodgepole pine that drop their seeds in fire, the dominant pines of the Sierra can’t reproduce if their seeds burn.
Manzanita and mountain whitethorn — chaparral typical at lower elevations in California — take root in ashes and can dominate the forest.
—Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
Similar climatic trends may have pushed the giant sequoia westward from the continent’s interior.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
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1860, in the meaning defined above
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nouncalled also big tree, sequoia
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