dawn redwood
Multiple Entries:dawn redwood redwood
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dawn redwood
▶noun a coniferous tree with deciduous needles, known only as a fossil until it was found growing in SW China in 1941. [Metasequoia glyptostroboides.]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
redwood/ˈredwʊd/
▶noun a giant coniferous tree with reddish wood, native to California and Oregon. [Sequoia sempervirens (California or coast redwood) and Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant redwood).]
■ used in names of other trees with reddish wood, e.g. dawn redwood.
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