“trees” is a form of
tree
/t͡ʃɹɪj/ noun, verb, proper noun
Also a form of three
Forms trees treeing treed treen tre
- noun A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches. “Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.”
- noun Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size. “The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.”
- noun 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.”
- noun A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open. “He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.”
- noun The structural frame of a saddle.
- noun (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- noun (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- noun (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.”
- verb (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. “The dog treed the cat.”
- verb (transitive) To place in a tree. “Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.”
- verb (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree. “to tree a boot”
- verb (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- noun (mathematics) An extremely fast-growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
sapling seedling tree diagram Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree corner shoetree
Etymology
From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true.
Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv (“oak”), Cornish dar (“oak”), Irish dair (“oak”), Manx darragh (“oak; oaken”), Scottish Gaelic darach (“oak”), Welsh dâr (“oak”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree; wood; spear”) (whence Greek δόρυ (dóry, “pike, spear”)), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Latvian darva (“tar”), Lithuanian derva (“tar; resin”), Belarusian дзе́рава (dzjérava, “tree”), дрэ́ва (dréva, “tree; wood”), Czech drvo, dřevo (“wood”), Polish drzewo (“tree; wood”), Russian де́рево (dérevo), дре́во (drévo, “tree; wood”), Serbo-Croatian др̏во, drȇvo, drijȇvo, drȋvo, dȑvo (“tree; wood”), Slovak and Slovene drevo (“tree; wood”), Ukrainian де́рево (dérevo, “tree; wood”), Armenian տարր (tarr, “element; component”), Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬎𐬭𐬎 (dāᵘru, “wood”), Central Kurdish and Persian دار (dâr, “tree; wood”), Northern Kurdish dar (“tree”), Zazaki dare (“tree”), Hittite 𒋫𒊒 (taru), 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (táru, “tree; wood”), Luwian 𒋫𒀀𒊒 (tāru, “wood”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B or (“wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “timber, wood”).
Replaced alternative Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and eclipsed non-native Middle English arbre, borrowed from Old French arbre.
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a conspicuous tree.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
- noun Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
- verb To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. J. Burroughs.
- verb To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Etymology [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. treó, treów, tree, wood; akin to OFries. tr, OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr, Dan. træ, Sw. trä, träd, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dru tree, wood, daru wood. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n., Trough.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tree”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details