Dictionary entry details
• TREE (noun)
Meaning:
A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("tree" is a kind of...):
ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)
Meronyms (parts of "tree"):
burl (a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree)
bole; tree trunk; trunk (the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber)
limb; tree branch (any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree)
capitulum; crown; treetop (the upper branches and leaves of a tree)
stump; tree stump (the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled)
Meronyms (substance of "tree"):
duramen; heartwood (the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood)
sapwood (newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree"):
silver ash (any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia)
Calycophyllum candidissimum; dagame; lemonwood tree (source of a tough elastic wood)
palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)
keurboom; Virgilia divaricata (fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental)
keurboom; Virgilia capensis; Virgilia oroboides (tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers)
pride of Bolivia; tipu; tipu tree; yellow jacaranda (semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental)
kowhai; Sophora tetraptera (shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood)
coral bean; frijolillo; frijolito; mescal bean; Sophora secundiflora (shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans)
Chinese scholar tree; Chinese scholartree; Japanese pagoda tree; Sophora japonica; Sophora sinensis (handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan)
scarlet wisteria tree; Sesbania grandiflora; vegetable hummingbird (a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies)
coffee; coffee tree (any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans)
chinchona; cinchona (any of several trees of the genus Cinchona)
Chloroxylon swietenia; satinwood; satinwood tree (East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood)
arishth; Azadirachta indica; margosa; Melia Azadirachta; neem; neem tree; nim tree (large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia)
azedarach; azederach; China tree; chinaberry; chinaberry tree; Melia azedarach; Melia azederach; Persian lilac; pride-of-India (tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree)
mahogany; mahogany tree (any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish)
incense tree (any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense)
Spanish tamarind; Vangueria madagascariensis (shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit)
medlar; Vangueria infausta; wild medlar; wild medlar tree (small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit)
lemon-wood; lemon-wood tree; lemonwood; lemonwood tree; Psychotria capensis (South African evergreen having hard tough wood)
Nauclea diderrichii; opepe; Sarcocephalus diderrichii (large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus)
carib wood; Sabinea carinalis (small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges)
Pterocarpus santalinus; red sandalwood; red sanders; red sanderswood; red saunders (tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood)
kino; Pterocarpus marsupium (East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning)
coral tree; erythrina (any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)
blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)
cocobolo; Dalbergia retusa (a valuable timber tree of tropical South America)
Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree (Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood)
Dalbergia sissoo; sisham; sissoo; sissu (East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties)
rosewood; rosewood tree (any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black)
Butea frondosa; Butea monosperma; dak; dhak; palas (East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye)
African sandalwood; Baphia nitida; camwood (small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye)
andelmin; angelim (any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira)
gliricidia (any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous)
millettia (any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood)
Burma padauk; Burmese rosewood; Pterocarpus macrocarpus (tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany)
amboyna; padauk; padouk; Pterocarpus indicus (tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain)
bloodwood tree; kiaat; Pterocarpus angolensis (deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood)
Indian beech; Pongamia glabra (evergreen Asiatic tree having glossy pinnate leaves and racemose creamy-white scented flowers; used as a shade tree)
quira (any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber)
fish fuddle; Jamaica dogwood; Piscidia erythrina; Piscidia piscipula (small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons)
necklace tree (a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads)
Myroxylon balsamum pereirae; Myroxylon pereirae; Peruvian balsam (tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam)
Myroxylon balsamum; Myroxylon toluiferum; tolu balsam tree; tolu tree (medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork)
Cercidium floridum; palo verde; Parkinsonia florida (densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium)
tree of knowledge (the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve)
treelet (a small tree)
snag (a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest)
teak; Tectona grandis (tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood)
Aegiceras majus; black mangrove (an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida)
Avicennia officinalis; white mangrove (a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific)
Cordia gerascanthus; princewood; Spanish elm (tropical American timber tree)
calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete (tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds)
plane tree; platan; sycamore (any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits)
Ceratopetalum gummiferum; Christmas bush; Christmas tree (Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration)
arbor (tree (as opposed to shrub))
bean tree (any of several trees having seedpods as fruits)
hazel; hazel tree; Pomaderris apetala (Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts)
nakedwood (any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood)
bonsai (a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot)
fever tree (any of several trees having leaves or barks used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever)
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
gymnospermous tree (any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta)
shade tree (a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight)
sapling (young tree)
pollard (a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage)
Calocarpum zapota; mammee; marmalade tree; Pouteria zapota; sapote (tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum)
gutta-percha tree; gutta-percha tree; Palaquium gutta (one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha)
Kirkia wilmsii; pepper tree (small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs)
bitterwood tree (any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste)
prickly ash (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)
Poncirus trifoliata; trifoliata; trifoliate orange; wild orange (small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges)
cork tree; Phellodendron amurense (deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark)
caracolito; Ruptiliocarpon caracolito (large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families)
lepidobotrys (African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds)
turreae (any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers)
African walnut; Lovoa klaineana (tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany)
willow; willow tree (any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix)
sandalwood tree; Santalum album; true sandalwood (parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests)
balata; balata tree; beefwood; bully tree; Manilkara bidentata (a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber)
Andaman marble; Diospyros kurzii; marble-wood; marblewood (large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood)
Diospyros ebenum; ebony; ebony tree (tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork)
Brazilian pepper tree; Schinus terebinthifolius (small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen)
molle; pepper tree; Peruvian mastic tree; Schinus molle (small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits)
aroeira blanca; Schinus chichita (small resinous tree or shrub of Brazil)
soapberry; soapberry tree (a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin)
aalii (a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood)
Eucarya acuminata; Fusanus acuminatus; quandang; quandong; quandong tree (Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed)
langsat; langset; lanseh tree; Lansium domesticum (East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry)
casuarina (any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood)
calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood (a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves)
blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree (Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit)
Pseudobombax ellipticum; shaving-brush tree (tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear)
Montezuma (evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae)
Bombax ceiba; Bombax malabarica; red silk-cotton tree; simal (East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok)
tulipwood tree (any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood)
Plagianthus betulinus; Plagianthus regius; ribbon tree; ribbonwood (deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton)
Hoheria populnea; houhere; lacebark; ribbonwood (small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage)
pandanus; screw pine (any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves)
break-axe; breakax; breakaxe; Sloanea jamaicensis (West Indian timber tree having very hard wood)
bottle tree; bottle-tree (an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton)
beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus (tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood)
firewheel tree; Stenocarpus sinuatus; wheel tree (eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers)
Orites excelsa; prickly ash (Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers)
Leucadendron argenteum; silver tree (small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage)
basswood; lime; lime tree; linden; linden tree (any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber)
arere; obeche; obechi; samba; Triplochiton scleroxcylon (large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood)
silver tree; Tarrietia argyrodendron (Australian timber tree)
maple-leaved bayur; mayeng; Pterospermum acerifolium (Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree)
Chinese parasol; Chinese parasol tree; Firmiana simplex; Japanese varnish tree; phoenix tree (deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods)
cockspur; Pisonia aculeata (small spiny West Indian tree)
Meryta sinclairii; puka (small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers)
Adenanthera pavonina; Barbados pride; coral-wood; coralwood; peacock flower fence; red sandalwood (East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental)
acacia (any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia)
Brya ebenus; granadilla tree; granadillo (West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony)
zebrawood; zebrawood tree (any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood)
Drimys winteri; winter's bark; winter's bark tree (South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood)
anise tree (any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium)
Guinea pepper; negro pepper; Xylopia aethiopica (tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine)
lancewood; lancewood tree; Oxandra lanceolata (source of most of the lancewood of commerce)
yellowwood; yellowwood tree (any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract)
albizia; albizzia (any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia)
conacaste; elephant's ear; Enterolobium cyclocarpa (tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber)
conessi; Holarrhena antidysenterica; Holarrhena pubescens; ivory tree; kurchee; kurchi (tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea)
Alstonia scholaris; devil tree; dita; dita bark (evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally)
camachile; huamachil; manila tamarind; Pithecellobium dulce; wild tamarind (common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum)
nitta tree (any of several Old World tropical trees of the genus Parkia having heads of red or yellow flowers followed by pods usually containing edible seeds and pulp)
Lysiloma bahamensis; Lysiloma latisiliqua; wild tamarind (a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods)
lead tree; Leucaena glauca; Leucaena leucocephala; white popinac (low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods)
guama; Inga laurina (tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations)
ice-cream bean; Inga edulis (ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America)
inga (any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals)
beech; beech tree (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)
chestnut; chestnut tree (any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur)
bonduc; chicot; Gymnocladus dioica; Kentucky coffee tree (handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute)
fig tree (any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature)
Australian nettle; Australian nettle tree (any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea)
idesia; Idesia polycarpa (deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries)
Hydnocarpus laurifolia; Hydnocarpus wightiana (leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil)
chaulmoogra; chaulmoogra tree; chaulmugra; Hydnocarpus kurzii; Taraktagenos kurzii; Taraktogenos kurzii (East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy)
Ceylon gooseberry; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla; ketembilla tree; kitambilla; kitembilla (a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India)
dipterocarp (tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae)
Caryocar nuciferum; souari; souari nut; souari tree (large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil)
ironwood; ironwood tree; Mesua ferrea; rose chestnut (handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties)
elm; elm tree (any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees)
hackberry; nettle tree (any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits)
locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)
cassia (any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods)
Brachystegia speciformis; msasa (small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers)
Acrocarpus fraxinifolius; shingle tree (East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes)
brazilian ironwood; Caesalpinia ferrea (thornless tree yielding heavy wood)
brazilwood; Caesalpinia echinata; peach-wood; peachwood; pernambuco wood (tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry)
Caesalpinia coriaria; divi-divi (small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin)
bonduc; bonduc tree; Caesalpinia bonduc; Caesalpinia bonducella (tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries)
cabbage tree; Cordyline australis; grass tree (elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand)
Clusia flava; wild fig (a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit)
clusia (an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers)
Calophyllum candidissimum; lancewood tree; laurelwood (tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood)
hornbeam (any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus)
alder; alder tree (north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant)
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)
evergreen beech; southern beech (any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves)
Lithocarpus densiflorus; tanbark oak (evergreen oak of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark)
Castanea chrysophylla; Castanopsis chrysophylla; Chrysolepis chrysophylla; giant chinkapin; golden chinkapin (small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath; bears edible nuts)
oak chestnut (a tree of the genus Castanopsis)
fringe tree (any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus)
hop hornbeam (any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops)
bay-rum tree; bayberry; Jamaica bayberry; Pimenta acris; wild cinnamon (West Indian tree; source of bay rum)
poon (any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood)
gum; gum tree (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)
Calophyllum longifolium; Maria (valuable timber tree of Panama)
Laguncularia racemosa; white mangrove (shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin)
button mangrove; button tree; Conocarpus erectus (evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood)
dhava; dhawa (an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum)
American olive; devilwood; Osmanthus americanus (small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits)
ash; ash tree (any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus)
calaba; Calophyllum calaba; Santa Maria tree (West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice)
Holonyms ("tree" is a member of...):
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
Meaning:
A figure that branches from a single root
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
tree diagram; tree
Context example:
genealogical tree
Hypernyms ("tree" is a kind of...):
plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree"):
cladogram (a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships)
stemma (a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work)
Meaning:
English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; Tree
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
theatrical producer (someone who produces theatrical performances)
• TREE (verb)
Meaning:
Force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
tree; corner
Hypernyms (to "tree" is one way to...):
channelise; channelize; direct; guide; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Plant with trees
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer
Hypernyms (to "tree" is one way to...):
plant; set (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Chase an animal up a tree
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Context examples:
the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it / her dog likes to tree squirrels
Hypernyms (to "tree" is one way to...):
chase; chase after; dog; give chase; go after; tag; tail; track; trail (go after with the intent to catch)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
shoetree; tree
Hypernyms (to "tree" is one way to...):
elongate; stretch (make long or longer by pulling and stretching)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
