tree meaning
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[tɹiː] [t͡ʃɹiː] [tɹi] [t͡ʃɹi] [-iː] 
UK US WTree
- In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.
- A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another.
- Trees play a significant role in reducing erosion and moderating the climate. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store large quantities of carbon in their tissues.
- NounPLtreesPLtreenSUF-ée
- A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
- Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
- Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
- Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
- 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.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and n-1 edges.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
- (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.
- We’ll show it as a tree list.
- Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (informal) Marijuana.
- (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
- Tyburn tree
- (obsolete) wood; timber.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
- VerbSGtreesPRtreeingPT, PPtreed
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- sway to the music; The trees swayed in the breeze.
- In some most parsimonious trees the Liaoning dromaeosaurids form a clade, but in others various species are more closely related to the dromaeosaurine and velociraptorine clade.
- The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
- It is a tableau in which postbath steam rises off muscular necks and horses stride lazily through the trees.
- He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tree in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "tree" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.