sequoia

• n.セコイア（米国カリフォルニア州産）

北米インディアンのチェロキー族の言語学者で、同族のために文字を発明したセコイヤにちなんで名づけられたアメリカの大型レッドウッド。-クチナシ、クチナシと同じ、セコイア属の諡。

sequoia (n.)

large American coniferous tree, 1857, from Modern Latin tree genus name given 1847 by Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher (1804-1849), originally to a different tree, the coast redwood, apparently in honor of Sequoya (a.k.a. George Guess, 1760-1843), Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people's language, whose name is from Cherokee (Iroquoian) Sikwayi, a word of unknown etymology.

Endlicher was a specialist in conifers, and he also was a philologist. But he never gave an etymology of this name and a search of his papers discovered no mention of Sequoya or the Cherokee writing system, and the connection is an assumption that some botanists have challenged, though no better candidate for a source has yet been found.

The giant sequoia was unseen by Europeans until 1833 and unknown to scientists until 1852. In May 1855, a pair of American botanists named it Taxodium giganteum, but that name was deemed inappropriate for several scientific reasons. Meanwhile, English botanist John Lindley, who had never been to California, in 1853 named it Wellingtonia in honor of the Duke of Wellington. "As high as Wellington towers above his contemporaries, as high towers this California tree above the forest surrounding it. Therefore, it shall bear for all time to come the name Wellingtonia gigantea." This sat poorly with the Americans, and much ink was spilled until a French botanist provided the solution by transferring Endlicher's name. In Britain still popularly called Wellingtonia.

1. Saunders was the influential chairman of the Sequoia Clubs Fiance Committee.

サンダースは、セコイアクラブ財務委員会の重要な主任委員だ。

2.Birdsong had appealed to the Sequoia Club for financial support.

バードサンはセコイアクラブに経済的な支援を要請したことがある。

3.The Sequoia Club attempted to rehabilitate itself.

セコイアクラブは再起を試みる。

4.The Sequoia Club 's name disgraced.

セコイアクラブ名誉失墜.

5.The amount I 'm suggesting the Sequoia Club contribute is fifty thousand dollars in two installments.

セコイアクラブが提供する数は5万元で、2回に分けて支払うことをお勧めします。