Trellis

Quick meaning: Trellis is a noun meaning An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.

Meaning

An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.

More Meanings

1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
2. (transitive) To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
3. (computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.

Example Sentences

to trellis vines

It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian.

Word Forms

• trellises
• trellising
• trellised

Synonyms for trellis

Depending on context, synonyms include treillage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include treillage, espalier, lattice, pergola, pergula, terracework.

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