Word Meaning

tree definition and meaning

n. Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
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.
n. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
n. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
n. Wood; timber.
n. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
v. t. To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
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.

Crossword clues for tree

- A large plant
- A little one is cared for in the nursery
- Cedar, say
- Elm or oak
- Elm, say
- Forest giant
- Found in the forest, reeling
- Genealogist’s work
- Gum or elm
- It had a certain weakness for hushaby baby
- Large growth
- Large plant
- Large woody plant
- Leaves branches but stands rooted to the ground
- Oak, elm or pine
- Perennial plant
- Plant in the street
- Relationship diagram
- Source of wood
- Tall plant
- Timber source
- Woody plant