Sequoia n. (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. Sequoia gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and Sequoia sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
... up, such an arrow goes about three hundred and fifty feet high, and requires eight seconds for the round trip. This test was made by shooting arrows over very tall sequoia trees, of ... — Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope
... "but even trees of closely related character show very different effects of lightning. 'Nothing but lightning,' writes John Muir, 'hurts the Sequoia or Big Tree. It lives on through indefinite thousands of years, until burned, blown down or undermined, or shattered by some tremendous lightning stroke. No ordinary bolt ever hurts the Sequoia. I have seen silver firs split into long peeled rails radiating like spokes of a wheel from ... — The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
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