| california redwood | (n) lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur; it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats, Syn. coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens |
| hundredweight | (n) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms, Syn. metric hundredweight, centner, doppelzentner |
| hundredweight | (n) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds, Syn. short hundredweight, quintal, cwt, centner, cental |
| hundredweight | (n) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds, Syn. long hundredweight, cwt |
| panama redwood | (n) hard heavy red wood of a quira tree, Syn. quira |
| panama redwood tree | (n) large erect shrub of Colombia having large odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and axillary racemes of fragrant yellow flowers, Syn. Panama redwood, Platymiscium pinnatum |
| redwing | (n) small European thrush having reddish flanks, Syn. Turdus iliacus |
| redwood | (n) the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees |
| redwood national park | (n) a national park in California featuring a redwood forest and Pacific Ocean coastline |
| amboyna | (n) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus, Syn. Andaman redwood |
| giant sequoia | (n) extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism, Syn. Sequoia gigantea, Sequoia Wellingtonia, big tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Sierra redwood |
| metasequoia | (n) large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China, Syn. dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostrodoides |
| red shrubby penstemon | (n) low branching dark green shrub with bunches of brick-red flowers at ends of branches; coastal ranges and foothills of northern California, Syn. redwood penstemon |
| red-winged blackbird | (n) North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings, Syn. Agelaius phoeniceus, redwing |
| sequoia | (n) either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae, Syn. redwood |
| taxodiaceae | (n) coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems, Syn. redwood family, subfamily Taxodiaceae |
| Hundredweight | n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2, 000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Redweed | n. (Bot.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas). Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Redwing | n. (Zool.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius phœniceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Redwithe | n. (Bot.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Redwood | n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 周瑜 | [Zhōu Yú, ㄓㄡ ㄩˊ, 周 瑜] Zhou Yu or Chou Yü (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redwall; in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang #19,755 [Add to Longdo] |
| 赤壁 | [Chì bì, ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ, 赤 壁] Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei; Chibi or Redwall in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Redwall of 208 #22,130 [Add to Longdo] |
| 赤壁之战 | [Chì bì zhī zhàn, ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ ㄓ ㄓㄢˋ, 赤 壁 之 战 / 赤 壁 之 戰] Battle of Redwall of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu; famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 #59,647 [Add to Longdo] |
| 赤壁市 | [Chì bì shì, ㄔˋ ㄅㄧˋ ㄕˋ, 赤 壁 市] Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei; Chibi or Redwall in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Redwall of 208 #110,932 [Add to Longdo] |
