Tree Synonyms & Definitions

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• TreeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
2. (n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
3. (n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
4. (n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
5. (v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
6. (v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
7. (n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
8. (n.) Wood; timber.

• TreebeardDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

• Tree burialDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.