Redwood
the name of various sorts of wood of a red color, as an Indian dyewood, the produce of Pterocarpus santalinus; the wood of Gordonia Hæmatoxylon, the redwood of Jamaica; that of Pterocarpus dalbergioides, or Andaman wood; that of Ceanothus columbrinus, the redwood of the Bahamas; that of Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous tree of California, the redwood of the timber trade; that of Soymida febrifuga, of which the bark is used in India for fevers, and has been employed successfully in Europe for typhus. The California redwood is the best known. The tree reaches a very great size, and forms forests in the coast mountains of California.