a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size.
something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree or a crosstree.
Mathematics, Linguistics. tree diagram.
family tree.
a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure.
a shoetree or boot tree.
a saddletree.
a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell.
a gallows or gibbet.
the cross on which Christ was crucified.
Computers. a data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree.
Christmas tree.
verb (used with object),treed,tree·ing.
to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
Informal. to put into a difficult position.
to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.
to furnish (a structure) with a tree.
Idioms for tree
up a tree, Informal. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped.
Origin of tree
before 900; Middle English; Old English trēo(w); cognate with Old Frisian, Old Norse trē,Old Saxon treo,Gothic triu; akin to Greek drŷs oak, Sanskrit, Avestan dru wood
OTHER WORDS FROM tree
treelike,adjective
Words nearby tree
Treblinka, trebuchet, trecento, tre corde, tredecillion, tree, tree-and-branch, tree aster, tree creeper, tree cricket, treed
Definition for tree (2 of 2)
Tree
[ tree ]
/ tri /
noun
Sir Herbert Beer·bohm[beer-bohm], /ˈbɪər boʊm/, Herbert Beerbohm, 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.
Old English trēo; related to Old Frisian, Old Norse trē, Old Saxon trio, Gothic triu, Greek doru wood, drus tree
British Dictionary definitions for tree (2 of 2)
Tree
/ (triː) /
noun
Sir Herbert Beerbohm . 1853–1917, English actor and theatre manager; half-brother of Sir Max Beerbohm. He was noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare
Any of a wide variety of perennial plants typically having a single woody stem, and usually branches and leaves. Many species of both gymnosperms (notably the conifers) and angiosperms grow in the form of trees. The ancient forests of the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian periods of the Paleozoic Era were dominated by trees belonging to groups of seedless plants such as the lycophytes. The strength and height of trees are made possible by the supportive conductive tissue known as vascular tissue.