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big tree

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big tree
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See giant sequoia.
big tree
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a giant Californian coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, with a wide tapering trunk and thick spongy bark: family Taxodiaceae. It often reaches a height of 90 metres Also called giant sequoia wellingtonia See also sequoia
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Noun1.big tree - extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in Californiabig tree - extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
giant sequoia, Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia Wellingtonia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sierra redwood
sequoia, redwood - either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae
genus Sequoiadendron, Sequoiadendron - giant sequoias; sometimes included in the genus Sequoia; until recently placed in the Taxodiaceae
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For the body he stripped a sheet of thick bark from around a big tree, and with much labor fashioned it into a cylinder of about the right size, pinning the edges together with wooden pegs.
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