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Where does “секвойя” come from?

секвойя (Russian) comes from English sequoia, from taxonomic name Sequoia.

Ancestry of “секвойя”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishsequoia"Sequoiadendron giganteum", a coniferous...
2taxonomic nameSequoia—
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