Word: Tree
How to pronounce: triː
Noun
Definitions:
1. A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.
Example sentences: "At the same time, branch-cutting was encouraged to get the tree to grow a single, main trunk."
2. A wooden structure or part of a structure.
3. A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.
Example sentences: "Both structure-based trees are moderately resolved with very short internal branches."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.
Example sentences: "Last week residents of midtown Palo Alto, California, were warned of a cougar on the prowl in their neighborhood, where another big cat was treed and shot last May."
Synonyms:
treelike
sapling
seedling
arbor
wood
tree diagram
woody
arboreal
fir
Derivations:
treed
treeless
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Tree in Other Languages...
Spanish: Arbol
German: Baum
French: Arbre
Italian: Albero
Turkish: Ağaç
