Sequoia

Definition: Sequoia

Sequoia

Noun

1. Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae.

Etymology: Sequoia \Se*quoi"a\, noun. [New Latin expression. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Sequoia

Synonym: redwood (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Sequoia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sequoia is a name commonly applied to two species of giant California redwood trees of the Family Taxodiaceae. It is also the name of three different parks and preserves in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Trees

Sequoia sempervirens
Sequoiadendron giganteum

Parks and Preserves

Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Forest
Giant Sequoia National Monument

The Native American who invented the Cherokee alphabet was named Sequoya.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sequoia."

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Crosswords: Sequoia

English words defined with "sequoia": genus Sequoia, genus Sequoiadendron, giant sequoia ♦ Kings Canyon National Park ♦ redwood ♦ Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoia Wellingtonia, Sequoiadendron, Sequoiene ♦ Wellingtonia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sequoia": Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sequoia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (Redwood, Sequoia), Swedish (sequoia).

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Modern Usage: Sequoia

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Old Sequoia (1945)

Sequoia (1934)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sequoia

Domain	Title
References	Sequoia Software Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Best Easy Day Hikes Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (reference) Capital Markets and Development: A Sequoia Seminar (reference) Day Hikes in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (Day Hikes) (reference) Falcon Hiking Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (Falcon Guide) (reference) Policy Reform and Equity: Extending the Benefits of Development: A Sequoia Seminar (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Sequoia & Kings Canyon (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods	Sequoia Publishing Inc. 480-Page Desk Reference (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sequoia

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Photo Album: Sequoia

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	F-15 Eagle banks over mountains in Sequoia National Forest.		Fun in the snow, Sequoia National Park, California.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Fun in the snow, Sequoia National Park, California.Credit: Library of Congress.		The takeoff, Sequoia National Park, California.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The takeoff, Sequoia National Park, California.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sequoia

"Sequoia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.52% of the time. "Sequoia" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	94.52%	69	40,280
Noun (singular)	5.48%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	73	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Sequoia

Country	Name
USA	Sequoia Software Corporation
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Sequoia

Expressions using "sequoia": genus Sequoia ♦ giant sequoia ♦ Sequoia gigantea ♦ Sequoia National Park ♦ Sequoia sempervirens ♦ Sequoia Washingtoniana ♦ Sequoia Wellingtonia. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sequoia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sequoia national park	3,808	toyota sequoia for sale	26
sequoia	1,734	sequoia high school	26
toyota sequoia	614	2003 toyota sequoia	23
sequoia national forest	275	used sequoia	22
ca natl park sequoia	134	buy toyota sequoia	21
giant sequoia	105	bank sequoia	20
sempervirens sequoia	104	new toyota sequoia	20
sequoia tree	88	sequoia for sale	20
sequoia king canyon national park	78	sequoia national park hotel	20
sequoia park	75	buy sequoia	20
sequoia restaurant	63	toyota sequoia part	19
sequoia institute	60	new sequoia	19
2004 sequoia toyota	52	bargain toyota sequoia	19
used toyota sequoia	51	sequoia national park map	19
hospital sequoia	50	bargain sequoia	18
toyota sequoia accessory	48	sequoia national park lodging	18
semperviren sequoia	47	forest sequoia	16
giganteum sequoia	46	camping sequoia	16
sequoia capital	42	toyota sequoia review	15
sequoia king canyon	32	sequoia fund	15
		sequoia union high school district	15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sequoia

Language		Translations for "sequoia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Sekuojë. (various references)

Arabic		‏السكوية شجرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		Секвоя (Redwood). (various references)

Chinese		美国� 州红杉. (various references)

Czech		Sekvoje. (various references)

Danish		mammuttrae (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood), amerikansk roedtrae (California redwood, coast redwood, redwood). (various references)

Dutch		Sequoia (California redwood, coast redwood, redwood), mammoetsboom (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood), mammoetboom (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood), Californische redwood (California redwood, coast redwood, redwood). (various references)

Finnish		mammuttipetäjä (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood). (various references)

French		Séquoia (giant sequoia). (various references)

German		Mammutbaum (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood). (various references)

Greek		Είδοσ όεγάλου �"ένδρου Τησ ίαλιφόρνιασ. (various references)

Hungarian		Kaliforniai �"riásfenyõ. (various references)

Italian		Sequoia (big tree, California redwood, coast redwood, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, Redwood). (various references)

Korean		세쿼이아. (various references)

Pig Latin		equoiasay

Portuguese		sequóia sempre-verde (California redwood, coast redwood, redwood), Sequóia. (various references)

Russian		Секвойя. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sekvoja. (various references)

Spanish		Secoya (big tree, redwood). (various references)

Swedish		Mammutträd (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood), Sequoia. (various references)

Thai		ต้นไม้ขนา�"ใหญ่มากในรัฐแคลิฟอร์เนียของอเมริกา. (various references)

Turkish		Sekoya (Redwood). (various references)

Ukranian		Секвоя. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sequoia

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Wellingtonia gigantea. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sequoia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sequoia": sequoias. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sequoia": metasequoia. (additional references)
	Words containing "sequoia": metasequoias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sequoia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bequia, Escocia, Esquilina, esquimau, saqqo, Secoya, secquoia, Sekiya, seqoia, seqoui, seqouia, sequia, Sequioa, sequoi, sequoiah, sequoin, sequoya, Sequoyah, sequoyia, siauliai, Sukowa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sequoia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-o-q-s-u"
	-2 letters: quais, quasi.
	-3 letters: quai.
	-4 letters: ais, eau, oes, ose, qua, sae, sau, sea, sei, sou, sue, suq, use.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, as, es, is, oe, os, si, so, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-o-q-s-u"
	+1 letter: sequoias.
	+2 letters: aequorins, equations, odalisque.
	+3 letters: aquiferous, odalisques, semiopaque, sequacious.
	+4 letters: equitations, equivocates, loquacities, metasequoia, microquakes, milquetoast, quaternions, quatrefoils, questionary.
	+5 letters: coequalities, desquamation, equinoctials, equivocators, metasequoias, milquetoasts, questionable, questionably, sequaciously.
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