dawn redwood

noun

|Updated on: 23 Jun 2018

Definition of dawn redwood

: a metasequoia (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) of China resembling the coast redwood but having deciduous foliage

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Other unusual trees included a large weeping European beech, with a sort of natural room under its down-curving branches, and a huge dawn redwood, originally native to China, near the Schaible Science Center.

— graydon megan, chicagotribune.com, "Elmhurst College groundskeeper shows some of the 900 trees making up the campus' certified arboretum," 17 June 2018

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