NOUN
- large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China
How To Use metasequoia In A Sentence
- Our analysis of dissected stems and the outer anatomy of fossil logs indicates that the Eocene Metasequoia were strongly self-pruning.
- Another example is the dawn wood, metasequoia , which was described as a fossil in 1941.
- It is discovered that Metasequoia glyptostroboides has axial traumatic resin canal in wood anatomical structure.
- Modern Metasequoia has relatively low-density wood compared with other temperate conifer and hardwood species.
- Among the white rot decay fungi, T. versicolor was not very aggressive against any of the softwoods, but produced some weight loss in pine and Metasequoia.
- Over 50 relict monotypic genera have survived from the Mesozoic era, 20% of China's total, among them the dove tree Davidia involucrata, Katsura tree Cercidophyllum japonicum, Chinese money maple Dipteronia sinensis, dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides (CR), Chinese bretschneidera Bretschneidera sinensis (EN), gingko Gingko biloba (EN), Tetracentron sinensis and one-eyed grass Kingdonia uniflora. 50 genera are endemic to China (20% of its total) and 67 plant species are nationally protected. The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, China
- Is Metasequoia ancestor of Sequoia sempervirens?
