Sentence:  But he did not notice , and was already backing the car down to the road , saying `` Toot-toot '' ! to the stump of a <WSD>tree</WSD> as he passed it , the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms