Word: tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree PIE word *dóru 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. Cognates 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. Pronunciation: /tɹiː/, [t̠ʰɹʷiː], [t͡ʃʰɹʷiː], [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷiː], /t͡ʃɹɪj/ 1. 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. Example: Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world. Example: Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden. 2. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size. Example: The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody. 3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms. Example: He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree. 4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open. Example: He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes. 5. The structural frame of a saddle. 6. A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges. 7. A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes. 8. 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. Example: We’ll show it as a tree list. 9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices. Example: family tree; skill tree 10. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding. 11. Marijuana. Labels: in-plural, often, slang Example: I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe Example: Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah) 12. A cross or gallows. Example: Tyburn tree Example: The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 13. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. 14. The fifth Lenormand card. 15. Alternative letter-case form of TREE. Labels: alt-of, uncountable