redwood

noun

1. a coniferous tree, Sequoia sempervirens, of California, noted for its great height, sometimes reaching to more than 350 feet (107 meters): the state tree of California.
2. its valuable brownish-red timber.
3. a red-colored wood.
4. any of various trees yielding a reddish wood.
5. any tree whose wood produces a red dyestuff.

adjective Scot.

1. raving mad; insane.
2. distracted with anger; furious.

noun

1. a giant coniferous tree, Sequoia sempervirens, of coastal regions of California, having reddish fibrous bark and durable timber: family Taxodiaceae . The largest specimen is over 120 metres (360 feet) tallSee also sequoia

n.

1610s, “wood that has a red hue,” from red (adj.1) + wood (n.). Of various types of New World trees that yield such wood, from 1716; specifically of the California Sequoia sempervirens from 1819. In Scottish English 16c.-18c. the same word as an adjective meant “completely deranged, raving, stark mad,” from wood (adj.).