redwood
/ˈɹɛdwʊd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
Example Sentences
- "a redwood grove"
- "This redwood deck will last forever."
- "I remember redwood trees, bumper cars and wolverines, the ocean's Trident submarines, lemons, limes and tangerines. I remember this..."
- "The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge."
- "This planter is made of redwood."
- "It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛdwʊd/
- British English: /ˈɹɛdwʊd/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Obsolete
Inflected Forms
Phrases
California redwood
coast redwood
coastal redwood
dawn redwood
giant redwood
Japanese redwood
Redwood City
Redwood County