tree
noun
1 tree
A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms.
Roget 166: paternity; parentage; consanguinity etc. 11. parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba†; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire†, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership†, fatherhood; mabap†. house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias [Lat.], grandmother. ... show more
Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure. plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass. annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic. timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst†, frith†, holt, weald†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum etc. 371. bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary†; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva†, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria†, banyan; blow, blowth†; floret†, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. foliage, branch, bough, ramage†, stem, tigella†; spray etc. 51; leaf. flower, blossom, bine†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume. ... show more
Roget 975: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan†, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote†, blacksnake†, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote†, kurbash†, quirt, rawhide, sjambok†; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end. pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool†, ducking stool; brank†; trebuchet†, trebuket†. [instruments of torture: list], triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture. treadmill, crank, galleys. scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate†. house of correction etc. (prison) 752. goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner†; lyncher; hangman; headsman†; Jack Ketch. ... show more
is a specific kind of: ligneous plant, woody plant.
is a broader term that covers: yellowwood, yellowwood tree | lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata | Guinea pepper, negro pepper, Xylopia aethiopica | anise tree | Drimys winteri, winter's bark, winter's bark tree | zebrawood, zebrawood tree | Brya ebenus, granadilla tree, granadillo | acacia | Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, coralwood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood | albizia, albizzia | conacaste, elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa | inga | ice-cream bean, Inga edulis | guama, Inga laurina | lead tree, Leucaena glauca, Leucaena leucocephala, white popinac | Lysiloma bahamensis, Lysiloma latisiliqua, wild tamarind | nitta tree | camachile, huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind | Alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita, dita bark | conessi, Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee, kurchi | Meryta sinclairii, puka | cockspur, Pisonia aculeata | pandanus, screw pine | Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark, ribbonwood | Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree, ribbonwood | tulipwood tree | Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree, simal | Montezuma | Pseudobombax ellipticum, shaving-brush tree | blue fig, Brisbane quandong, Elaeocarpus grandis, quandong, quandong tree, silver quandong tree | calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood | break-axe, breakax, breakaxe, Sloanea jamaicensis | bottle-tree, bottle tree | Chinese parasol, Chinese parasol tree, Firmiana simplex, Japanese varnish tree, phoenix tree | maple-leaved bayur, mayeng, Pterospermum acerifolium | silver tree, Tarrietia argyrodendron | arere, obeche, obechi, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon | basswood, lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree | Leucadendron argenteum, silver tree | Orites excelsa, prickly ash | firewheel tree, Stenocarpus sinuatus, wheel tree | beefwood, scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus | casuarina | beech, beech tree | chestnut, chestnut tree | oak chestnut | Castanea chrysophylla, Castanopsis chrysophylla, Chrysolepis chrysophylla, giant chinkapin, golden chinkapin | Lithocarpus densiflorus, tanbark oak | evergreen beech, southern beech | oak, oak tree | birch, birch tree | alder, alder tree | hornbeam | hop hornbeam | fringe tree | ash, ash tree | American olive, devilwood, Osmanthus americanus | dhava, dhawa | button mangrove, button tree, Conocarpus erectus | Laguncularia racemosa, white mangrove | bay-rum tree, bayberry, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon | gum, gum tree | poon | calaba, Calophyllum calaba, Santa Maria tree | Calophyllum longifolium, Maria | Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree, laurelwood | clusia | Clusia flava, wild fig | ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut | Caryocar nuciferum, souari, souari nut, souari tree | dipterocarp | Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitambilla, kitembilla | chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii | Hydnocarpus laurifolia, Hydnocarpus wightiana | idesia, Idesia polycarpa | Australian nettle, Australian nettle tree | fig tree | elm, elm tree | hackberry, nettle tree | cabbage tree, Cordyline australis, grass tree | bonduc, bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella | Caesalpinia coriaria, divi-divi | brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood | brazilian ironwood, Caesalpinia ferrea | Acrocarpus fraxinifolius, shingle tree | Brachystegia speciformis, msasa | cassia | locust, locust tree | bonduc, chicot, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree | Cercidium floridum, palo verde, Parkinsonia florida | andelmin, angelim | African sandalwood, Baphia nitida, camwood | Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, dhak, palas | rosewood, rosewood tree | Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo, sissu | Dalbergia cearensis, kingwood, kingwood tree | cocobolo, Dalbergia retusa | blackwood, blackwood tree | coral tree, erythrina | gliricidia | millettia | Myroxylon balsamum, Myroxylon toluiferum, tolu balsam tree, tolu tree | Myroxylon balsamum pereirae, Myroxylon pereirae, Peruvian balsam | necklace tree | fish fuddle, Jamaica dogwood, Piscidia erythrina, Piscidia piscipula | quira | Indian beech, Pongamia glabra | bloodwood tree, kiaat, Pterocarpus angolensis | amboyna, padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus | Burma padauk, Burmese rosewood, Pterocarpus macrocarpus | kino, Pterocarpus marsupium | Pterocarpus santalinus, red sandalwood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders | carib wood, Sabinea carinalis | scarlet wisteria tree, Sesbania grandiflora, vegetable hummingbird | Chinese scholar tree, Chinese scholartree, Japanese pagoda tree, Sophora japonica, Sophora sinensis | coral bean, frijolillo, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora | kowhai, Sophora tetraptera | pride of Bolivia, tipu, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda | keurboom, Virgilia capensis, Virgilia oroboides | keurboom, Virgilia divaricata | palm, palm tree | Calycophyllum candidissimum, dagame, lemonwood tree | coffee, coffee tree | chinchona, cinchona | Nauclea diderrichii, opepe, Sarcocephalus diderrichii | lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis | medlar, Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree | Spanish tamarind, Vangueria madagascariensis | incense tree | mahogany, mahogany tree | azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India | arishth, Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree | Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood, satinwood tree | silver ash | langsat, langset, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum | African walnut, Lovoa klaineana | turreae | lepidobotrys | caracolito, Ruptiliocarpon caracolito | cork tree, Phellodendron amurense | Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange | prickly ash | bitterwood tree | Kirkia wilmsii, pepper tree | willow, willow tree | sandalwood tree, Santalum album, true sandalwood | Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandang, quandong, quandong tree | aalii | soapberry, soapberry tree | aroeira blanca, Schinus chichita | molle, pepper tree, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle | Brazilian pepper tree, Schinus terebinthifolius | Diospyros ebenum, ebony, ebony tree | Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii, marble-wood, marblewood | balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata | gutta-percha tree, Palaquium gutta | gutta-percha tree | Calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote | Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Christmas bush, Christmas tree | plane tree, platan, sycamore | calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete | Cordia gerascanthus, princewood, Spanish elm | Avicennia officinalis, white mangrove | Aegiceras majus, black mangrove | teak, Tectona grandis | snag | timber tree | treelet | arbor | bean tree | pollard | sapling | shade tree | gymnospermous tree | angiospermous tree, flowering tree | fever tree | bonsai | nakedwood | hazel, hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala | tree of knowledge ... show more.
has as a part: stump, tree stump | crown, treetop | limb, tree branch | bole, tree trunk, trunk | burl.
is a member of: forest, wood, woods.
Dutch: boom
Polish: drzewo
2 tree
A figure that branches from a single root:
— Genealogical tree.
synonym: tree diagram.
is a specific kind of: plane figure, two-dimensional figure.
3 Tree
English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917).
synonym: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
is an instance of: actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian | theatrical producer.
verb
1 tree
Force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape.
synonym: corner.
2 tree
3 tree
Chase an animal up a tree.
is a specific kind of: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail.
derivation: treen1.
4 tree
Moby thesaurus: Stammbaum, acacia, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, avocado, ax, balsa, balsam, banyan, bare pole, basswood, bay, bayberry, beech, betel palm, birch, block, bottle up, buckeye, butternut, buttonwood, cacao, candleberry, cashew, cassia, catalpa, cherry, chestnut, chinquapin, cinnamon, citron, clove, coconut, collar, conifer, cork oak, corner, cross, cypress, death chair, death chamber, dogwood, drop, ebony, elder, electric chair, elm, eucalyptus, evergreen, family tree, fig, fir, frankincense, fruit tree, gallows, gallows-tree, gas chamber, genealogical tree, genealogy, gibbet, grapefruit, guava, guillotine, gum, halter, hardwood tree, hawthorn, hazel, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, henna, hickory, holly, hop tree, horse chestnut, hot seat, ironwood, juniper, kumquat, laburnum, lancewood, larch, laurel, lemon, lethal chamber, lime, linden, litchi, litchi nut, locust, logwood, magnolia, mahogany, maiden, mango, mangrove, maple, mast, medlar, mountain ash, mulberry, noose, nutmeg, oak, olive, orange, palm, papaw, papaya, peach, pear, pecan, pedigree, persimmon, pine, pistachio, plane, plum, pole, pollard, pomegranate, poplar, quince, raffia palm, rain tree, redwood, rope, sandalwood, sapling, sassafras, scaffold, seedling, senna, sequoia, shade tree, softwood tree, spar, spruce, stake, stemma, stick, sycamore, tangerine, teak, the chair, timber, timber tree, tulip tree, walnut, willow, witch hazel, yew ... show more.
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