Dictionary

redwood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɛdwʊd/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɹɛdwɵd/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈɻɛdwʉd/ (Northern-Ireland)
• /ˈɾɛdwʉd/ (Scotland)
• /ˈɹedwʊd/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɾɛdwʊd/ (Wales)

Etymology

From red + wood.

Meanings

1. (countable, qualifier:USDA-preferred term, uncountable) A tree of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
   • a redwood grove
   • This redwood deck will last forever.
2. (countable) Any 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:
   • 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. (uncountable) Wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.
   • This planter is made of redwood.
4. (UK, obsolete, uncountable) Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
5. (countable) A tree of species Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
6. (uncountable) Timber 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:

Forms

Deriveds

Japanese redwood · coast redwood · giant redwood · Redwood Falls · coastal redwood · Sierra redwood · dawn redwood · Redwood City · California redwood · Redwood County

Translations (24)

pt sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) · cy cochwydd Califfornia (Sequoia sempervirens) · sv sekvoja (Sequoia sempervirens) · ru секво́йя (Sequoia sempervirens) · cst mak-summenikma (Sequoia sempervirens) · pl sekwoja (any tree of genus Sequoia) · ru кра́сное де́рево (Sequoia sempervirens) · ca sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) · de Mammutbaum (Sequoia sempervirens) · sv sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) · cs sekvoj (Sequoia sempervirens) · cy cochwydd (any tree of genus Sequoia) · it sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) · pl sekwoja wieczniezielona (Sequoia sempervirens) · ja セコイア (Sequoia sempervirens) · pt sequoia-vermelha (Sequoia sempervirens) · kju qʼasi·l (Sequoia sempervirens) · fr séquoia (Sequoia sempervirens) · kk секвойя (Sequoia sempervirens) · css hop (Sequoia sempervirens) · bg вечнозелена секвоя (Sequoia sempervirens) · cmn 紅杉 /红杉 (Sequoia sempervirens) · fi punapuu (Sequoia sempervirens) · es secoya gigante (Sequoia sempervirens)