Tree (tr ), Sir Herbert Beerbohm 1853-1917. British actor and producer who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1904). |
| tree (tr) n. 1. a. A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown. b. A plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size. 2. Something, such as a clothes tree, that resembles a tree in form. 3. A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure. 4. A saddletree. 5. A diagram that has branches in descending lines showing relationships as of hierarchy or lineage: a family tree; a telephone tree. 6. Computer Science A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path. 7. Archaic a. A gallows. b. The cross on which Jesus was crucified. tr.v. treed, tree·ing, trees Idiom: 1. To force up a tree: Dogs treed the raccoon. 2. Informal To force into a difficult position; corner. 3. To supply with trees: treed the field with oaks. 4. To stretch (a shoe or boot) onto a shoetree. up a tree Informal In a situation of great difficulty or perplexity; helpless. [Middle English, from Old English tr ow; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]tree  less adj. |
Trees
a place where trees are grown for scientific observation, for pleasure, or both.
the cultivation of trees and shrubs for scientific, commercial, or other purposes. — arboriculturist, n.
the cultivation of citrus fruits, as lemons, oranges, etc. — citriculturist, n.
the process of stripping off or removing the cortex or outer layer.
the study of annual rings in trees to determine their age, climatic and other conditions and changes that might have affected them, etc. — dendrochronologist, n. — dendrochronological, adj.
the science of tree description. — dendrographic, dendrographical, adj.
the veneration of trees. — dendrolatrous, adj.
the branch of botany that studies trees. — dendrologist, n. — dendrologic, dendrological, adj.
1. the planting of forests.
2. the state of being covered with trees, as of a tract of land.
2. the state of being covered with trees, as of a tract of land.
Obsolete, the act or process of cutting away branches of trees to let light through.
a fondness or liking for forests, woods, or woodland scenery. — nemophilist, n. — nemophilous, adj.
the cultivation of fruit and fruit trees.
the process of planting new trees in areas where they have been removed by cutting or destroyed by fire, disease, etc.
the cultivation of forest trees; forestry. — silviculturist, sylviculturist, n.
1. standing timber, with special reference to its value in money.
2. the right to cut such timber and its value on another’s land.
2. the right to cut such timber and its value on another’s land.
a tumor or woodlike substance on a tree or plant.
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