What's the difference between coniferous and sequoia?
Coniferous
Definition:
(a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
(a.) Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that high corticosterone levels are involved in the emigration of juveniles out of the coniferous forest.
(2) The size of such immune stratum characterizes the activity of natural foci: the largest immune stratum (25.4%) exists among the population of regions with broad-leaved forests, this stratum is somewhat less (12.2-13.2%) in regions with combined coniferous and broad-leaved forest, in regions with different combinations of broad-leaved forests and steppes, as well as mountain forests.
(3) The most dangerous foci of TBE were found to be located in the southern Okhotsk region grown with dark coniferous forests.
(4) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(5) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
(6) This paper concerns the microbiological part of an investigation, the goal of which is to describe the biological changes in coniferous forest soil upon clear-cutting in a northern (66 degrees 20'N) moraine area where reforestation after clear-cutting had been met with difficulty.
(7) Exposure to terpenes and other heating products of coniferous woods was significantly associated with a risk of respiratory cancer when the duration of exposure exceeded five years.
(8) Two populations of Apodemus sylvaticus, one in deciduous woodland and another in coniferous forest in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, were trapped at monthly intervals over 33 months.
(9) The geographical variability of the population of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in the northern part of the zone of combined coniferous and broad-leaved forests was established; this variability was manifested by higher virulence and homogeneity of TBE virus strains, as shown in experiments on white mice receiving the virus extraneurally, in comparison with the southern part of the zone and by higher virus carriership of the ticks Ixodes persulcatus.
(10) Therefore, the contamination of the mushrooms in the coniferous forest of Koralpenblick (1000 m) is higher than in the mixed forest at the Rosenberg around Graz at approx.
(11) Elevated values at other times in coniferous areas may have been related to the consumption of epiphytic lichens.
(12) Glover says the commission is not a guardian of our woods, having "for most of its existence ... gone about ripping up ancient forests and heathlands and covering them in industrial coniferous monoculture".
(13) Lignins of coniferous timber proved most effective.
(14) Voles from wet coniferous habitats contained concentrations of 137Cs twenty- to fiftyfold higher than voles from deciduous habitats.
(15) Clemens) that has ravaged the coniferous softwoods of eastern Canada and the United States.
(16) The study was concerned with the influence of lignins of leaf-bearing and coniferous timber and 22 model compounds (lignin components) on nitrosation of dimethylamine, amidopyrine and morpholine in human gastric juice.
(17) Altogether, 17.8 thousand mosquitoes were examined which were collected in June-August, 1985, in the light and dark coniferous subzones of mid-taiga.
(18) The most expressive decrease of humoral immunity was noted in middle-aged people living in the subzone of broad-leaved and coniferous forests and forest steppe.
(19) They are more effective enriched by coniferous plants which contain ingredients able to absorb and transport these groups of environmental pollutants in the organism.
(20) The method of molecular hybridization of nucleic acids (MHNA) is compared to the traditional bioprobe technique in the study of virus carriership of I. persulcatus ticks collected in the South and in the North of the area of coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the Khabarovsk Territory.
Sequoia
Definition:
(n.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(2) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
(3) Sequoia also boasts 4,421m Mount Whitney, the high point of the John Muir Trail, which runs through Sequoia and Kings Canyon on its way up to Yosemite.
(4) Pollen of different species of the Taxodiaceae family (Cryptomeria japonica, Sequoia sempervirens and Metasequoia glyptostroboides) and Japanese juniper (Juniperus rigida) in the Cupressaceae family, which are propagated mainly in the southern region of Okayama Prefecture, were found among the atmospheric pollen.
(5) An atopic patient with adult onset of asthma due to sawdust from redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is described.
(6) Two patients with occupational asthma due to California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) sawdust are described.
(7) The place I’m talking of, the place where I spend several months a year, is part of the Giant Sequoia national monument, which comprises over 500 square miles, contains the only extant groves of the world’s largest tree and sits at an elevation of 7,200 feet above the San Joaquin valley.
(8) TOP TIP The Giant Forest in Sequoia national park is home to five of the 10 largest trees in the world, including the General Sherman.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Giant Sequoia contains the only extant groves of the world’s largest tree In addition to fly fishermen, the area attracts rock climbers from all over the world.
(10) Other major investors – Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, which together own about two-fifths of the company – did not participate in the offering.
(11) Moritz stepped back from the day-to-day running of his firm Sequoia Capital in May after announcing he had a manageable but incurable disease.
(12) Backplane is his third company, alongside AF Square and Atom Factory (his talent management arm), and raised $5m from blue chip investors including Google Ventures, Sequoia (one of the oldest tech private equity firms, which was among the backers of Google and Apple) and Founders Fund – a fund backed by Facebook's co-founder Sean Parker and PayPal's founder Peter Thiel.
(13) Toyota issued the latest recall Monday, covering passenger airbags in 247,000 older model vehicles including the Lexus SC, Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia and Tundra.
(14) However, earlier this year Sequoia Fund, another US hedge fund, accused Rolls of being “willing to destroy shareholder value” by branching out from manufacturing jet engines.
(15) Before joining Sequoia, Moritz was San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine.
(16) For now the focus remains on its malign impact: 111 buildings destroyed, including 31 homes, air polluted as far away as Nevada, sequoias, electricity and water supplies menaced, communities evacuated.
(17) It also threatened two groves of giant sequoias on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada.
(18) When I first began visiting, this community was part of the Sequoia national forest, but that designation changed in 2000, when President Clinton rededicated the park as a national monument, which means mineral and timber extraction is no longer permitted.
(19) • Lost Coast links hiking trails , bear safety and canister regulations , history of the Punta Gorda lighthouse Redwood national and state parks Photograph: Alamy If you've been to Sequoia, you've already seen the largest trees in the world, but the Redwood national and state parks in northern California boast the tallest trees, including 115.7m Hyperion, the world's tallest living tree.
(20) Fly to Fresno Yosemite Airport Stay at Curry Village, within the park , tent cabins from $95 Danny Palmerlee, author of Lonely Planet's guide to Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (£14.99) Volcano biking, Hawaii Volcanoes NP Kilauea volcano has been erupting pretty much constantly since 1983, creating a moonscape of lava fields, smoking craters, cinder cones and steam vents.