Tree

/tɹiː/ · noun

Meaning

A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches..

Definitions by Sense

1. A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
2. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
5. The structural frame of a saddle.
6. (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
7. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
8. (graphical user interface) 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.

Example Sentences

Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.

Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.

B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.

When we see a train trapped behind (or embedded in) a fallen tree our first thought should be 'what was it doing there anyway?' […]Trees are also responsible for numerous minor delays in autumn [due to leaves falling on the track], which rolling stock engineers are supposed to cope with as usual.

The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.

He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.

He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.

We’ll show it as a tree list.

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Word Forms

• trees
• treen
• tre
• treeing
• treed

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