What's the difference between redwood and sequoia?
Redwood
Definition:
(n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
(n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
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) The ability to use cyclitols as a sole source of carbon can explain the high cell densities of Klebsielleae in redwood water reservoirs and in redwood lumber.
(3) 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.
(4) Vicky Redwood, UK analyst at Capital Economics , said that once special factors were taken into account the economy had been "pretty flat" in the third quarter.
(5) Vicky Redwood, senior UK economist, Capital Economics August's UK Inflation Report echoes yesterday's message from the US Fed that interest rates are likely to stay very low for a long time yet .
(6) Redwood said: "Through meticulously drawing together specific information, the team has been able to refocus the timeline and now places more significance on events that night.
(7) Marketing any product will only take an organisation so far.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vicki Hughes at work in the Redwood coffee house In much the same way that the craft beer phenomeneon has helped breathe some much-needed life into the dying pub trade, so it is that the independent or ‘artisan’ coffee shops appear to be reinventing the way people now take their caffeine.
(8) Detectives led by Redwood will meet with their Polícia Judiciária counterparts in Faro on Tuesday to discuss the request.
(9) Labour said the Commons education committee should hold an inquiry and Gove faced implicit criticism from his own party in the form of Tory backbencher John Redwood, who said he was "unsure of what is going on" and that it was "unfair" for exam criteria to change at the last moment.
(10) John Redwood appeared to criticise the government's plans recently when he attacked the "myths" of housing shortage on his blog.
(11) If there is any example that shows how ridiculous Redwood’s claims are, it is the Scottish referendum, when 16 and 17-year-olds were allowed to have a say.
(12) Redwood is leading the £5m British investigation into the suspected abduction of Madeleine.
(13) Lattes are now a daily part of running our business and an increasing proportion of our expenses go towards supporting the local coffee economy.” App developer Mark Brown favours Redwood and Mange Tout, both on Trafalgar Street.
(14) An atopic patient with adult onset of asthma due to sawdust from redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is described.
(15) Fly to Cleveland Hopkins airport Stay at The Inn at Brandywine Falls , from $129 Gary Lewis, director of education, Geological Society of America Klamath River Overlook, Redwood NP , California People come here for the redwoods – the tallest trees on the planet – but, for me, the view from this overlook near the town of Requa is a spectacular reason to visit.
(16) Not just human existence but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
(17) In his blog last week, former Tory cabinet minister John Redwood – who Cameron has appointed to lead a review of competitiveness – drew an analogy with England's World Cup team to make the case for lower taxes on business and swingeing cuts to spending.
(18) A formulated preparation of trichosanthin (GLQ223, Pharmaceutical Development Group, Genelabs Inc., Redwood City, California, USA) has been shown to selectively inhibit HIV replication in vitro in lymphocytes and macrophages.
(19) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
(20) July 6, 2016 John Redwood, a leading Eurosceptic, expressed hope that Labour’s motion “would not be opposed”, though the opposition day debate and vote is non-binding and has no effect on government policy Burnham, whose wife is Dutch, said the issue would “directly affect the lives of millions of people living in this country”.
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.