EGAVE

tree

About 55.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
    Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
  2. noun Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
    The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
  3. noun An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
    He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
  4. noun A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  5. noun The structural frame of a saddle.
  6. noun A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
  7. noun A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
  8. noun 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.
    We’ll show it as a tree list.

Similar words

tree diagram foliage shrub bole treeline plant trunk woody orchard timber

Often followed by

of and is in to that with was or

Word family

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sir Herbert Draper Beerbohm Tree Tree treed treeing treeless treelike trees

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