Definition of tree Tree
/tɹiˈ/ - [tree] - Tree
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| tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms | ||
| ligneous plant, woody plant a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems | ||
| woods, forest, wood the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | ||
| yellowwood tree, yellowwood any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | ||
| oxandra lanceolata, lancewood, lancewood tree source of most of the lancewood of commerce | ||
| negro pepper, xylopia aethiopica, guinea pepper tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine | ||
| anise tree any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium | ||
| drimys winteri, winter's bark tree, winter's bark South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood | ||
| zebrawood tree, zebrawood any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood | ||
| brya ebenus, granadilla tree, granadillo West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | ||
| acacia any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia | ||
| adenanthera pavonina, barbados pride, coral-wood, coralwood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | ||
| albizia, albizzia any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia | ||
| conacaste, enterolobium cyclocarpa, elephant's ear tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | ||
| inga any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals | ||
| ice-cream bean, inga edulis ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America | ||
| guama, inga laurina tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations | ||
| lead tree, leucaena glauca, leucaena leucocephala, white popinac low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods | ||
| lysiloma bahamensis, lysiloma latisiliqua, wild tamarind a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods | ||
| nitta tree any of several Old World tropical trees of the genus Parkia having heads of red or yellow flowers followed by pods usually containing edible seeds and pulp | ||
| camachile, huamachil, manila tamarind, pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | ||
| alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita, dita bark evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally | ||
| conessi, holarrhena antidysenterica, holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee, kurchi tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | ||
| meryta sinclairii, puka small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers | ||
| pisonia aculeata, cockspur small spiny West Indian tree | ||
| screw pine, pandanus any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | ||
| hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark, ribbonwood small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | ||
| plagianthus betulinus, plagianthus regius, ribbon tree, ribbonwood deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | ||
| tulipwood tree any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood | ||
| bombax ceiba, bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree, simal East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok | ||
| montezuma evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae | ||
| pseudobombax ellipticum, shaving-brush tree tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear | ||
| brisbane quandong, elaeocarpus grandis, silver quandong tree, blue fig, quandong tree, quandong red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | ||
| calabur tree, calabura, jamaican cherry, muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | ||
| break-axe, breakax, breakaxe, sloanea jamaicensis West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | ||
| bottle-tree, bottle tree an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton | ||
| chinese parasol, chinese parasol tree, firmiana simplex, phoenix tree, japanese varnish tree deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods | ||
| maple-leaved bayur, mayeng, pterospermum acerifolium Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree | ||
| tarrietia argyrodendron, silver tree Australian timber tree | ||
| arere, obechi, triplochiton scleroxcylon, obeche, samba large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | ||
| linden tree, basswood, lime tree, linden, lime soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | ||
| leucadendron argenteum, silver tree Australian timber tree | ||
| orites excelsa, prickly ash Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers | ||
| firewheel tree, stenocarpus sinuatus, wheel tree eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers | ||
| scrub beefwood, stenocarpus salignus, beefwood tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood | ||
| casuarina any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood | ||
| beech tree, beech any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | ||
| chestnut tree, chestnut a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | ||
| oak chestnut a tree of the genus Castanopsis | ||
| castanea chrysophylla, castanopsis chrysophylla, chrysolepis chrysophylla, giant chinkapin, golden chinkapin small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath; bears edible nuts | ||
| lithocarpus densiflorus, tanbark oak evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark | ||
| evergreen beech, southern beech any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves | ||
| oak tree, oak a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns" | ||
| birch tree, birch a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment; "my father never spared the birch" | ||
| alder tree, alder north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | ||
| hornbeam any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | ||
| hop hornbeam any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops | ||
| fringe tree any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus | ||
| ash tree, ash any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus | ||
| american olive, devilwood, osmanthus americanus small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | ||
| dhava, dhawa an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | ||
| button mangrove, button tree, conocarpus erectus evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood | ||
| laguncularia racemosa, white mangrove shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin | ||
| bay-rum tree, jamaica bayberry, pimenta acris, bayberry, wild cinnamon deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | ||
| gum tree, gum any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum | ||
| poon any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood | ||
| calaba, calophyllum calaba, santa maria tree West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice | ||
| calophyllum longifolium, maria valuable timber tree of Panama | ||
| calophyllum candidissimum, laurelwood, lancewood tree tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | ||
| clusia an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers | ||
| clusia flava, wild fig a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit | ||
| mesua ferrea, rose chestnut, ironwood tree, ironwood handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties | ||
| caryocar nuciferum, souari, souari tree, souari nut large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil | ||
| dipterocarp tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | ||
| ceylon gooseberry, dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla tree, ketembilla, kitambilla, kitembilla maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves | ||
| chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, hydnocarpus kurzii, taraktagenos kurzii, taraktogenos kurzii East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | ||
| hydnocarpus laurifolia, hydnocarpus wightiana leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil | ||
| idesia, idesia polycarpa deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries | ||
| australian nettle, australian nettle tree any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea | ||
| fig tree any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature | ||
| elm tree, elm any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees | ||
| nettle tree, hackberry any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits | ||
| cordyline australis, cabbage tree, grass tree elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand | ||
| bonduc tree, caesalpinia bonduc, caesalpinia bonducella, bonduc tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries | ||
| caesalpinia coriaria, divi-divi small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin | ||
| caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood, brazilwood tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | ||
| brazilian ironwood, caesalpinia ferrea thornless tree yielding heavy wood | ||
| acrocarpus fraxinifolius, shingle tree East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes | ||
| brachystegia speciformis, msasa small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers | ||
| cassia Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon | ||
| locust tree, locust any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae | ||
| chicot, gymnocladus dioica, kentucky coffee tree, bonduc handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | ||
| cercidium floridum, palo verde, parkinsonia florida densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium | ||
| andelmin, angelim any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira | ||
| african sandalwood, baphia nitida, camwood small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye | ||
| butea frondosa, butea monosperma, dak, dhak, palas East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | ||
| rosewood tree, rosewood any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black | ||
| dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo, sissu East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | ||
| dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree, kingwood Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | ||
| cocobolo, dalbergia retusa a valuable timber tree of tropical South America | ||
| blackwood tree, blackwood any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood | ||
| coral tree, erythrina any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental | ||
| gliricidia any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous | ||
| millettia any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | ||
| myroxylon balsamum, myroxylon toluiferum, tolu balsam tree, tolu tree medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork | ||
| myroxylon balsamum pereirae, myroxylon pereirae, peruvian balsam tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam | ||
| necklace tree a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads | ||
| fish fuddle, jamaica dogwood, piscidia erythrina, piscidia piscipula small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons | ||
| quira any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber | ||
| indian beech, pongamia glabra evergreen Asiatic tree having glossy pinnate leaves and racemose creamy-white scented flowers; used as a shade tree | ||
| kiaat, pterocarpus angolensis, bloodwood tree deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood | ||
| padauk, padouk, pterocarpus indicus, amboyna tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | ||
| burma padauk, burmese rosewood, pterocarpus macrocarpus tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany | ||
| pterocarpus marsupium, kino East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning | ||
| pterocarpus santalinus, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, red sandalwood tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood | ||
| carib wood, sabinea carinalis small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges | ||
| scarlet wisteria tree, sesbania grandiflora, vegetable hummingbird a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies | ||
| chinese scholar tree, chinese scholartree, japanese pagoda tree, sophora japonica, sophora sinensis handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan | ||
| coral bean, frijolillo, frijolito, mescal bean, sophora secundiflora shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | ||
| kowhai, sophora tetraptera shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood | ||
| pride of bolivia, tipu, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental | ||
| virgilia capensis, virgilia oroboides, keurboom tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers | ||
| virgilia divaricata, keurboom tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers | ||
| palm tree, palm the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers | ||
| calycophyllum candidissimum, dagame, lemonwood tree source of a tough elastic wood | ||
| coffee tree, coffee a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee" | ||
| chinchona, cinchona any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | ||
| nauclea diderrichii, opepe, sarcocephalus diderrichii large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus | ||
| lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, psychotria capensis, lemonwood, lemonwood tree South African evergreen having hard tough wood | ||
| vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree, medlar small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit | ||
| spanish tamarind, vangueria madagascariensis shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit | ||
| incense tree any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense | ||
| mahogany tree, mahogany any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish | ||
| azedarach, azederach, chinaberry tree, melia azedarach, melia azederach, china tree, chinaberry, persian lilac, pride-of-india evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | ||
| arishth, azadirachta indica, margosa, melia azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | ||
| chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree, satinwood East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood; | ||
| silver ash any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia | ||
| langsat, langset, lanseh tree, lansium domesticum East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | ||
| african walnut, lovoa klaineana tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany | ||
| turreae any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers | ||
| lepidobotrys African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds | ||
| caracolito, ruptiliocarpon caracolito large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families | ||
| phellodendron amurense, cork tree prickly Australian coral tree having soft spongy wood | ||
| poncirus trifoliata, trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges | ||
| prickly ash Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers | ||
| bitterwood tree any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste | ||
| kirkia wilmsii, pepper tree small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs | ||
| willow tree, willow a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | ||
| sandalwood tree, santalum album, true sandalwood parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests | ||
| eucarya acuminata, fusanus acuminatus, quandang, quandong tree, quandong red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | ||
| aalii a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood | ||
| soapberry, soapberry tree a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | ||
| aroeira blanca, schinus chichita small resinous tree or shrub of Brazil | ||
| molle, peruvian mastic tree, schinus molle, pepper tree small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs | ||
| brazilian pepper tree, schinus terebinthifolius small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen | ||
| diospyros ebenum, ebony tree, ebony tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork | ||
| andaman marble, diospyros kurzii, marble-wood, marblewood large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood | ||
| balata tree, bully tree, manilkara bidentata, balata, beefwood a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | ||
| palaquium gutta, gutta-percha tree one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha | ||
| gutta-percha tree one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha | ||
| calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, pouteria zapota, sapote, mammee tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | ||
| ceratopetalum gummiferum, christmas bush, christmas tree Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration | ||
| plane tree, platan, sycamore any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits | ||
| calabash tree, crescentia cujete, calabash a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd | ||
| cordia gerascanthus, princewood, spanish elm tropical American timber tree | ||
| avicennia officinalis, white mangrove shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin | ||
| aegiceras majus, black mangrove a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground | ||
| tectona grandis, teak tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | ||
| sapwood newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction | ||
| duramen, heartwood the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | ||
| snag a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest; "a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds" | ||
| timber tree any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber | ||
| treelet a small tree | ||
| arbor a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park" | ||
| bean tree any of several trees having seedpods as fruits | ||
| pollard a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed | ||
| sapling young tree | ||
| shade tree a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight | ||
| gymnospermous tree any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta | ||
| angiospermous tree, flowering tree any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary | ||
| fever tree African tree supposed to mark healthful regions | ||
| tree stump, stump (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket | ||
| bonsai a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot | ||
| treetop, crown the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head | ||
| nakedwood tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood | ||
| hazel tree, pomaderris apetala, hazel a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | ||
| tree branch, limb the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant" | ||
| tree trunk, bole, trunk a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa | ||
| burl a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | ||
| tree of knowledge the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve | ||
| tree - a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree" | ||
| tree diagram | ||
| plane figure, two-dimensional figure a two-dimensional shape | ||
| cladogram a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships | ||
| tree - English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) | ||
| Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree | ||
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| tree - plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer" | ||
| plant, set put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds" | ||
| tree - chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels" | ||
| dog, give chase, chase after, go after, tail, chase, tag, track, trail remove the stalk of fruits or berries | ||
| tree - stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | ||
| shoetree | ||
| elongate, stretch make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric" | ||
| tree - force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | ||
| corner | ||
| steer, manoeuvre, manoeuver, maneuver, channelize, channelise, guide, head, direct, point direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | ||
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Wiktionary 
- tree (Noun)
A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches which also grow in circumference with age. - tree (Noun)
Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree". - tree (Noun)
An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms. - tree (Noun)
A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open. - tree (Noun)
The structural frame of a saddle. - tree (Noun)
A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and n-1 edges. - tree (Noun)
A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children. - tree (Noun)
A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right. - tree (Noun)
Any structure or construct having branches akin to 1. - tree (Noun)
The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding. - tree (Noun)
Marijuana. - tree (Verb)
To chase an animal or person up a tree. - tree (Verb)
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tree (n.)
Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. - tree (n.)
Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. - tree (n.)
A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. - tree (n.)
A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. - tree (n.)
Wood; timber. - tree (n.)
A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. - tree (v. t.)
To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. - tree (v. t.)
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
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A widely-used data structure that emulates a tree structure with a set of linked nodes.
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trē, n. a plant having a single trunk, woody, branched, and of a large size: anything like a tree: wood, as in the compounds axle-tree, saddle-tree, &c.: a cudgel: (B.) a cross.—v.t. to drive into a tree, to corner: to form on a tree.—v.i. to take refuge in a tree.—ns. Tree′-cac′tus, the giant cactus or saguaro; Tree′-calf, a light-brown calf bookbinding, stained by acids into a conventional pattern, supposed to resemble the trunk of a tree and its branches; Tree′-dove, one of many arboricole Indian pigeons; Tree′-fern, a fern with a tree-like, woody stem, and a head of fronds resembling the leaves of palms, found only in tropical countries; Tree′-frog, a family of Amphibians, more closely related in structure to the toads than to frogs proper.—adjs. Tree′less, having no trees; Trēēn, wooden, made of wood: (Spens.) of trees.—ns. Tree′nail, Tre′nail, a long wooden pin or nail to fasten the planks of a ship to the timbers; Tree′-nymph, a hamadryad; Tree′-of-lib′erty, a tree dedicated to liberty, set up in some public place; Tree′-of-life, arbor vitæ: a tree in the garden of Eden, described in Gen. ii. 9; Tree′ship, existence as a tree; Tree′-top, the top of a tree; Tree′-wor′ship, dendrolatry. [A.S. treó, treów; Ice. tré, Gr. drus, Sans. dru.]
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Remove an old tree and it will wither to death.
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A tree is a tall plant with a trunk and branches made of wood. It can live for many years. The four main parts of a tree are the roots, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves.
The roots of a tree are under the ground. A single tree has many roots. The roots carry food and water from the ground through the trunk and branches to the leaves of the tree.
The trunk is the main body of the tree. The trunk is covered with bark which protects it from damage. Branches grow from the trunk. They spread out so that the leaves can receive sunlight.
The leaves of a tree are usually green, but they can come in many colors, shapes and sizes. The leaves take in sunlight and use water and food from the roots to make the tree grow, and to reproduce.
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