Overview of noun tree

The noun tree has 3 senses

• tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)


• tree, tree diagram -- (a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree")


• Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree -- (English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917))

Overview of verb tree

The verb tree has 4 senses

• corner, tree -- (force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape)


• tree -- (plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer")


• tree -- (chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels")


• tree, shoetree -- (stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree)