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METASEQUOIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China
Synonyms:
dawn redwood; metasequoia; Metasequoia glyptostrodoides
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("metasequoia" is a kind of...):
conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)
Holonyms ("metasequoia" is a member of...):
genus Metasequoia (genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae)
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