redwood

red +‎ wood

redwood (plural redwoods)

1. (countable, uncountable, USDA-preferred term) The species Sequoia sempervirens.

   a redwood grove

   This redwood deck will last forever.

2. (countable) Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.
3. (uncountable) The wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

   This planter is made of redwood.

4. (uncountable, Britain, obsolete) Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.
5. (countable) The tree Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.
6. (uncountable) Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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.