Definition of tree

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

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Sidewalk :: Sidewalk (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
Copse :: Copse (v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc..
Spile :: Spile (n.) A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple..
Blackwood :: Blackwood (n.) A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
Gamboge :: Gamboge (n.) A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic..
Timber :: Timber (n.) That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3..
Splinter :: Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree..
Cassia :: Cassia (n.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine..
Superficies :: Superficies (n.) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc..
Mohawk :: Mohawk (n.) One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians..
Piney :: Piney (a.) A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products..
Otaheite Apple :: Otaheite apple () A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree (Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries.
Kamala :: Kamala (n.) The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm..
Thorny :: Thorny (superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown..
Lecythis :: Lecythis (n.) A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers..
Rhizophora :: Rhizophora (n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove.
Ross :: Ross (n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees..
Bellman :: Bellman (n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours..
Lobby :: Lobby (n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard..
Caper :: Caper (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree..
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