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# sequoia

«sequoia» in Mova's school dictionary: **a huge evergreen tree from California; it includes the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sequoia, sequoias)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sequoia is a huge evergreen tree from California; it includes the giant sequoia and the coast redwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#m1)

2) Sequoias are among the biggest and oldest living things on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the giant sequoia General Sherman is the largest single tree by volume; coast redwoods are the tallest trees. Their thick bark helps them survive forest fires, and some cones only open after fire. Named after Sequoyah, a Cherokee man who made a writing system for his language.

### examples

- The sequoia was so wide we couldn't hug it, even with ten people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#x1)
- Sequoias can live for thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#x2)
- Their bark protects them from fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#x3)
- We saw giant sequoias in a national park in California. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#x4)
- A sequoia grows from a seed as small as a flake of oat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#x5)
- Redwoods and sequoias are cousins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/#x6)

### note

Pronounced «suh-KWOY-uh». The word has all five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) — a fun spelling fact.

### In the corpora

- [People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sequoia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sequoia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.