Crossword-Solution: WELLINGTONIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wellingtonia | n. | A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia. |
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| a tree of the genus Sequoia | 1 answer |
| Sequoia | 3 answers |
| Tree. | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with WELLINGTONIA (5)
None of these grew near the Truckee, but I feasted my eyes on pines[4] which, though not so large as the Wellingtonia of the Yosemite, are really gigantic, attaining a height of 250 feet, their huge stems, the warm red of cedar wood, rising straight and branchless for a third of their height, their diameter from seven to fifteen feet, their shape that of a larch, but with the needles long and dark, and cones a foot long.
More than thirty species of Coniferæ have been found, including several Sequoias (allied to the gigantic Wellingtonia of California), with species of Thujopsis and Salisburia now peculiar to Japan.
Among the phænogamous plants, the Conifers are abundant, the most common belonging to a genus called Cycadopteris by Debey, and hardly separable from Sequoia (or Wellingtonia), of which both the cones and branches are preserved.
The churchyard is full of crosses, a large granite cross in memory of John Keble as rector in the midst, and there is a splendid Wellingtonia, or more properly a Sequoia, now about fifty years old, and overtopping the bell-turret.
The fastigiate birch was produced in this way by Baumann, the _Abies concolor fastigiata_ by Thibault and Keteleer at Paris, the pyramidal cedar by Paillat, the analogous form of _Wellingtonia_ by Otin.