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Definition of Redwood family
1. Noun. Coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Cupressaceae, Cypress Family, Family Cupressaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redwood Family
Literary usage of Redwood family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"redwood family. Trees with linear or awl-shaped alternate leaves. Stam- inate
and ovulate catkins on the same tree. Staminate catkins small. ..."
2. The Rhode Island Historical Magazine edited by Henry Edward Turner, Risbrough Hammett Tilley (1880)
"GENEALOGY OF THE redwood family. The earliest record that we have of any member
of the redwood family is that of ABRAHAM REDWOOD [1], \>ho was born in ..."
3. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted edited by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge (1887)
"A detailed genealogical account of the redwood family, formerly of Bristol, who
settled in America in the last century, may be found in the first number of ..."
4. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"redwood family. Trees with linear or awl-shaped alternate leaves. ... some material
being referred even to other genera of the redwood family which have ..."
5. The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales edited by Charles Wilkins, James Harris (1884)
"... of the redwood family, and never, so far as I know, having been duplicated,
as was Carlyle's wont, the national magazine may fairly claim the credit of ..."
6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1913)
"[The testator was probably related to the redwood family of Newport, RI Abraham
Redwood came to Salem from Antigua, and his children settled at Newport, ..."
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