Tree

English Meaning

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

1. A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.
2. A plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.
3. Something, such as a clothes tree, that resembles a tree in form.
4. A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.
5. A saddletree.
6. A diagram that has branches in descending lines showing relationships as of hierarchy or lineage: a family tree; a telephone tree.
7. Computer Science A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.
8. Archaic A gallows.
9. Archaic The cross on which Jesus was crucified.
10. To force up a tree: Dogs treed the raccoon.
11. Informal To force into a difficult position; corner.
12. To supply with trees: treed the field with oaks.
13. To stretch (a shoe or boot) onto a shoetree.
14. up a tree Informal In a situation of great difficulty or perplexity; helpless.