Definition/Meaning of tree

• English - Noun: tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen) 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. Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden. Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size. The banana tree is a…
• English - Verb: tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed) (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. The dog treed the cat. 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146: "And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them." (transitive) To…
• English - Numeral: tree (colloquial, pronunciation spelling) Pronunciation spelling of three
• English - Anagrams: reet rete
• English - Etymology: PIE w or d *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…