redwood

plural redwoods

1. countableuncountableUSDA-preferred termA tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

   a redwood grove

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   This redwood deck will last forever.

2. countableAny of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.

   I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines, the ocean's Trident submarines, lemons, limes and tangerines. I remember this...

   1988 November 8, R.E.M., “I Remember California”, in Green

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   The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

   2022 April 30, David Helvarg, “Climate change threatens another California forest, this one underwater”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025

3. uncountableWood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

   This planter is made of redwood.

4. UKobsoleteuncountableWood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
5. countableA tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
6. uncountableTimber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.

   It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

1. A surname.

   In government their last two Welsh Secretaries were John Redwood (Wokingham) and William Hague (Richmond).

   2004, Alan Trench, Has Devolution Made a Difference?: The State of the Nations 2004

2. A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.