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a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree"

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

Any large perennial woody plant having a single trunk or stem, usually over ten feet high; anything shaped like a tree; a piece of timber; a cross.

To drive up a tree; as, to tree a cat.

Large plant with a woody trunk; anything like a tree.

To force to climb a tree.

A perennial woody plant at least 20 feet in height at maturity.

A timber.

A plant with an erect trunk and spreading branches, both of which are woody and perennial; anything like a tree, consisting of a stem and branches; a piece of wood; a cross.

To take to a tree for refuge.

To drive to a tree.

Any woody plant of considerable height rising to some distance with a single woody stem; something resembling a tree; a cross; a piece of timber, or something usually made of timber.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic] A perennial plant having a trunk, bole, or woody stem, and sending forth branches with woody stems and structure similar to itself – distinguished from an herb as having a perennial stem, and from a shrub, as having only one stem or trunk properly so called, and sometimes only by the superior hardness and height to which it attains; –something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling a tree; –a piece of timber or something made of timber–used in composition; –a cross; –genealogical tree, family pedigree; in the form of a tree and branches illustrating the parent stock, and the different descendants who have sprung from it: –tree of liberty, tree planted to commemorate the achieving of liberty or of some accession to liberty by the people of a community or state.