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• Tree — /tree/, n. Sir Herbert Beerbohm /bear bohm/, (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853 1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm. * * * I Woody perennial plant. Most trees have a single self supporting trunk containing woody tissues, and in …   Universalium

• tree — treelike, adj. /tree/, n., v., treed, treeing. n. 1. a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground. 2. any of various shrubs,… …   Universalium

• Tree line — The tree line or timberline is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing. Beyond the tree line, they are unable to grow because of inappropriate environmental conditions (usually cold temperatures, insufficient air pressure,… …   Wikipedia

• tree — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deciduous, evergreen ▪ coniferous ▪ native ▪ exotic, tropical ▪ ornamental …   Collocations dictionary

• tree — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. plant, sapling, scrub, shrub, bush; timber; whiffletree; stake; gibbet, gallows; family tree, pedigree, lineage. See vegetable, ancestry. II (Roget s IV) n. Common types of trees include: ash, elm,… …   English dictionary for students

• stunted — adj. Stunted is used with these nouns: ↑tree …   Collocations dictionary

• Christmas tree pests and weeds — An entomologist checks Scots Pine for pine shoot beetles at a Christmas tree farm near East Lansing, Michigan. Pine and fir trees, grown purposely for use as Christmas trees, are vulnerable to a wide variety of pests, weeds and diseases. Many of… …   Wikipedia

• Witch Tree — Infobox protected area | name = Witch Tree location = Minnesota, USA nearest city = Grand Portage, MN lat degrees = 47 lat minutes = 57 lat seconds = 30 lat direction = N long degrees = 89 long minutes = 38 long seconds = 30 long direction = W… …   Wikipedia

• Old Tjikko — is a 9,550 year old Norway Spruce tree, located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. Old Tjikko is the world s oldest living individual clonal tree, however, there are many examples of much older clonal colonies (multiple trees… …   Wikipedia

• scrub — {{11}}scrub (n.) brush, shrubs, late 14c., low, stunted tree, variant of shrobbe (see SHRUB (Cf. shrub)), perhaps influenced by a Scandinavian word (Cf. Danish dialectal skrub a stunted tree, brushwood ). Collective sense is attested from 1805.… …   Etymology dictionary

• scrub — scrub1 [skrub] n. [ME, var. of shrubbe, SHRUB1, infl. ? by ON skroppa, a lean creature] 1. a) a scraggly, stunted tree or shrub b) short, stunted trees, bushes, or shrubs growing thickly together c) land covered with such growth …   English World dictionary