Sentence:  During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track , and the bare <WSD>trees</WSD> reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying , like leaves , in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga . 
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