tree

Meanings

Noun

• A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.
• Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).
• An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
• A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
• The structural frame of a saddle.
• A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
• A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
• 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.
• Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
• The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
• Marijuana.
• A cross or gallows.
• Wood; timber.
• A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
• The fifth Lenormand card.

Verb

• To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
• To place in a tree.
• To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
• To take refuge in a tree.

Related

Similar words

• sapling
• seedling

Narrower meaning words

• cabbage tree
• chaste tree
• hip tree
• Joshua tree
• lipstick tree
• pear tree, peartree, Pear Tree
• * See also :Category:en:Trees
• en
• AVL tree
• binary tree
• caterpillar tree
• DOM tree
• Merkle tree
• red-black tree
• regression tree
• search tree
• spanning tree
• suffix tree
• syntax tree
• XML tree
• boottree
• b-tree
• boron tree
• call tree
• cat tree
• clothes tree
• coat tree
• dead tree
• decision tree
• family tree
• hat tree
• Jesse Tree
• Kurepa tree
• manteltree
• mantle-tree
• maple tree
• phylogenetic tree
• rood-tree
• saddle tree
• shoe tree
• skill tree
• technology tree
• trestle tree
• world tree

Broader meaning words

• plant
• graph

Origin

• From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English trēo, trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą, from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru.
• From the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree, North Frisian tre, trä, Middle Dutch tree > Dutch teer, Danish træ, Swedish trä, träd, Norwegian tre, Icelandic tré, Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿, Sanskrit दारु, Albanian dru, Welsh dâr, Ancient Greek δόρυ, Russian де́рево or дре́во, Tocharian A or. Related to tar, true.