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Definition of Tree |
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Tree
Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. Wood; timber. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3. Related Definitions: Aggregated, And, Any, Arborescent, As, Ascend, Axletree, Boot, Boottree, Branches, By, Cause, Chesstree, Commonly, Composition, Considerable, Considered, Consisting, Constructed, Cross, Dog, Drive, Feet, Fit, Form, From, Gallows, Genealogical, Growing, High, In, Lead, Like, Made, Mass, Metal, Obtained, Of, Or, Over, Perennial, Piece, Place, Plant, Precipitation, Resembling, See, Single, Size, Solution, Something, Squirrel, Stem, Stock, Stretch, The, Timber, To, Tree, Trunk, Twenty, Under, Upon, Used, Whiffletree, With, Wood, Woody |
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Tree Quotations
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson As the tree is bent, so it will grow. Bill O'Reilly A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at? Ronald Reagan A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran |
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Tree Translations
tree in Afrikaans is boom tree in Dutch is boom tree in Finnish is puu tree in French is arbre Tree in German is Baum tree in Latin is arbor tree in Norwegian is tre |
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