Trees
noun
1.
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
2.
any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size.
3.
something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree or a crosstree.
4.
Mathematics, Linguistics. tree diagram.
5.
family tree.
6.
a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure.
7.
a shoetree or boot tree.
8.
a saddletree.
9.
a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell.
10.
a gallows or gibbet.
11.
the cross on which Christ was crucified.
12.
Computers. a data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree.
13.
Christmas tree.
verb (used with object), treed, treeing.
14.
to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
15.
Informal. to put into a difficult position.
16.
to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.
17.
to furnish (a structure) with a tree.
Idioms
18.
up a tree, Informal. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped.
noun
1.
any large woody perennial plant with a distinct trunk giving rise to branches or leaves at some distance from the ground related adjective arboreal
2.
any plant that resembles this but has a trunk not made of wood, such as a palm tree
3.
a wooden post, bar, etc
4.
See family tree, shoetree, saddletree
5.
(chem) a treelike crystal growth; dendrite
6.
a branching diagrammatic representation of something, such as the grammatical structure of a sentence
(as modifier): a tree diagram
7.
an archaic word for gallows
8.
(archaic) the cross on which Christ was crucified
9.
at the top of the tree, in the highest position of a profession, etc
10.
(US & Canadian, informal) up a tree, in a difficult situation; trapped or stumped
verb (transitive) trees, treeing, treed
11.
to drive or force up a tree
12.
to shape or stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
1.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm. 1853–1917, English actor and theatre manager; half-brother of Sir Max Beerbohm. He was noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare
tree
(trē)
Any of a wide variety of perennial plants typically having a single woody stem, and usually branches and leaves. Many species of both gymnosperms (notably the conifers) and angiosperms grow in the form of trees. The ancient forests of the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian periods of the Paleozoic Era were dominated by trees belonging to groups of seedless plants such as the lycophytes. The strength and height of trees are made possible by the supportive conductive tissue known as vascular tissue.
“Trees” definition
(1913) A poem by the American poet Joyce Kilmer. Its opening lines are: “I think that I shall never see / A poem as lovely as a tree.”
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