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| n. (plant) | 1. tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| ~ forest, woods, wood | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area. |
| ~ yellowwood tree, yellowwood | any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract. |
| ~ oxandra lanceolata, lancewood, lancewood tree | source of most of the lancewood of commerce. |
| ~ negro pepper, xylopia aethiopica, guinea pepper | tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine. |
| ~ anise tree | any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium. |
| ~ drimys winteri, winter's bark tree, winter's bark | South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood. |
| ~ zebrawood tree, zebrawood | any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood. |
| ~ brya ebenus, granadilla tree, granadillo | West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony. |
| ~ acacia | any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia. |
| ~ adenanthera pavonina, barbados pride, coral-wood, coralwood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood | East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental. |
| ~ albizia, albizzia | any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia. |
| ~ conacaste, enterolobium cyclocarpa, elephant's ear | tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber. |
| ~ inga | any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals. |
| ~ ice-cream bean, inga edulis | ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America. |
| ~ guama, inga laurina | tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations. |
| ~ lead tree, leucaena glauca, leucaena leucocephala, white popinac | low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods. |
| ~ lysiloma bahamensis, lysiloma latisiliqua, wild tamarind | a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods. |
| ~ nitta tree | any of several Old World tropical trees of the genus Parkia having heads of red or yellow flowers followed by pods usually containing edible seeds and pulp. |
| ~ camachile, huamachil, manila tamarind, pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind | common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum. |
| ~ alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita, dita bark | evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally. |
| ~ conessi, holarrhena antidysenterica, holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee, kurchi | tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea. |
| ~ meryta sinclairii, puka | small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers. |
| ~ pisonia aculeata, cockspur | small spiny West Indian tree. |
| ~ screw pine, pandanus | any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves. |
| ~ hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark, ribbonwood | small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage. |
| ~ plagianthus betulinus, plagianthus regius, ribbon tree, ribbonwood | deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton. |
| ~ tulipwood tree | any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood. |
| ~ bombax ceiba, bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree, simal | East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok. |
| ~ montezuma | evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae. |
| ~ pseudobombax ellipticum, shaving-brush tree | tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear. |
| ~ brisbane quandong, elaeocarpus grandis, silver quandong tree, blue fig, quandong tree, quandong | Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit. |
| ~ calabur tree, calabura, jamaican cherry, muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood | a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves. |
| ~ break-axe, breakax, breakaxe, sloanea jamaicensis | West Indian timber tree having very hard wood. |
| ~ bottle-tree, bottle tree | an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton. |
| ~ chinese parasol, chinese parasol tree, firmiana simplex, phoenix tree, japanese varnish tree | deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods. |
| ~ maple-leaved bayur, mayeng, pterospermum acerifolium | Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree. |
| ~ tarrietia argyrodendron, silver tree | Australian timber tree. |
| ~ arere, obechi, samba, triplochiton scleroxcylon, obeche | large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood. |
| ~ linden tree, basswood, lime tree, linden, lime | any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber. |
| ~ leucadendron argenteum, silver tree | small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage. |
| ~ orites excelsa, prickly ash | Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers. |
| ~ firewheel tree, stenocarpus sinuatus, wheel tree | eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers. |
| ~ scrub beefwood, stenocarpus salignus, beefwood | tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood. |
| ~ casuarina | any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood. |
| ~ beech, beech tree | any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions. |
| ~ chestnut tree, chestnut | any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur. |
| ~ oak chestnut | a tree of the genus Castanopsis. |
| ~ castanea chrysophylla, castanopsis chrysophylla, chrysolepis chrysophylla, giant chinkapin, golden chinkapin | small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath; bears edible nuts. |
| ~ lithocarpus densiflorus, tanbark oak | evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark. |
| ~ evergreen beech, southern beech | any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves. |
| ~ oak tree, oak | a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves.; "great oaks grow from little acorns" |
| ~ birch tree, birch | any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark. |
| ~ alder tree, alder | north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant. |
| ~ hornbeam | any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus. |
| ~ hop hornbeam | any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops. |
| ~ fringe tree | any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus. |
| ~ ash tree, ash | any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus. |
| ~ american olive, devilwood, osmanthus americanus | small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits. |
| ~ dhava, dhawa | an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum. |
| ~ button mangrove, button tree, conocarpus erectus | evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood. |
| ~ laguncularia racemosa, white mangrove | shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin. |
| ~ bay-rum tree, bayberry, jamaica bayberry, pimenta acris, wild cinnamon | West Indian tree; source of bay rum. |
| ~ gum tree, gum | any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum. |
| ~ poon | any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood. |
| ~ calaba, calophyllum calaba, santa maria tree | West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice. |
| ~ calophyllum longifolium, maria | valuable timber tree of Panama. |
| ~ calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree, laurelwood | tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood. |
| ~ clusia | an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers. |
| ~ clusia flava, wild fig | a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit. |
| ~ ironwood, ironwood tree, mesua ferrea, rose chestnut | handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties. |
| ~ caryocar nuciferum, souari, souari nut, souari tree | large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil. |
| ~ dipterocarp | tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae. |
| ~ ceylon gooseberry, dovyalis hebecarpa, ketembilla, ketembilla tree, kitambilla, kitembilla | a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India. |
| ~ chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, hydnocarpus kurzii, taraktagenos kurzii, taraktogenos kurzii | East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy. |
| ~ hydnocarpus laurifolia, hydnocarpus wightiana | leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil. |
| ~ idesia, idesia polycarpa | deciduous roundheaded Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries. |
| ~ australian nettle, australian nettle tree | any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea. |
| ~ fig tree | any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature. |
| ~ elm, elm tree | any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees. |
| ~ hackberry, nettle tree | any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits. |
| ~ cordyline australis, grass tree, cabbage tree | elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand. |
| ~ bonduc tree, caesalpinia bonduc, caesalpinia bonducella, bonduc | tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries. |
| ~ caesalpinia coriaria, divi-divi | small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin. |
| ~ caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood, brazilwood | tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry. |
| ~ brazilian ironwood, caesalpinia ferrea | thornless tree yielding heavy wood. |
| ~ acrocarpus fraxinifolius, shingle tree | East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes. |
| ~ brachystegia speciformis, msasa | small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers. |
| ~ cassia | any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods. |
| ~ locust tree, locust | any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae. |
| ~ bonduc, chicot, gymnocladus dioica, kentucky coffee tree | handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute. |
| ~ cercidium floridum, palo verde, parkinsonia florida | densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium. |
| ~ andelmin, angelim | any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira. |
| ~ african sandalwood, baphia nitida, camwood | small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye. |
| ~ butea frondosa, butea monosperma, dak, dhak, palas | East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye. |
| ~ rosewood tree, rosewood | any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black. |
| ~ dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo, sissu | East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties. |
| ~ dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree, kingwood | Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood. |
| ~ cocobolo, dalbergia retusa | a valuable timber tree of tropical South America. |
| ~ blackwood tree, blackwood | any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood. |
| ~ coral tree, erythrina | any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental. |
| ~ gliricidia | any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous. |
| ~ millettia | any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood. |
| ~ myroxylon balsamum, myroxylon toluiferum, tolu balsam tree, tolu tree | medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork. |
| ~ myroxylon balsamum pereirae, myroxylon pereirae, peruvian balsam | tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam. |
| ~ necklace tree | a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads. |
| ~ fish fuddle, jamaica dogwood, piscidia erythrina, piscidia piscipula | small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons. |
| ~ quira | any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber. |
| ~ indian beech, pongamia glabra | evergreen Asiatic tree having glossy pinnate leaves and racemose creamy-white scented flowers; used as a shade tree. |
| ~ bloodwood tree, kiaat, pterocarpus angolensis | deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood. |
| ~ padauk, padouk, pterocarpus indicus, amboyna | tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain. |
| ~ burma padauk, burmese rosewood, pterocarpus macrocarpus | tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany. |
| ~ pterocarpus marsupium, kino | East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning. |
| ~ pterocarpus santalinus, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, red sandalwood | tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood. |
| ~ carib wood, sabinea carinalis | small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges. |
| ~ scarlet wisteria tree, sesbania grandiflora, vegetable hummingbird | a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies. |
| ~ chinese scholar tree, chinese scholartree, japanese pagoda tree, sophora japonica, sophora sinensis | handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan. |
| ~ coral bean, frijolillo, frijolito, mescal bean, sophora secundiflora | shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans. |
| ~ kowhai, sophora tetraptera | shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood. |
| ~ pride of bolivia, tipu, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda | semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental. |
| ~ virgilia capensis, virgilia oroboides, keurboom | tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers. |
| ~ keurboom, virgilia divaricata | fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental. |
| ~ palm tree, palm | any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves. |
| ~ calycophyllum candidissimum, dagame, lemonwood tree | source of a tough elastic wood. |
| ~ coffee tree, coffee | any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans. |
| ~ chinchona, cinchona | any of several trees of the genus Cinchona. |
| ~ nauclea diderrichii, opepe, sarcocephalus diderrichii | large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus. |
| ~ lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood tree, psychotria capensis, lemonwood | South African evergreen having hard tough wood. |
| ~ medlar, vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree | small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit. |
| ~ spanish tamarind, vangueria madagascariensis | shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit. |
| ~ incense tree | any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense. |
| ~ mahogany tree, mahogany | any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish. |
| ~ azedarach, azederach, chinaberry tree, melia azedarach, melia azederach, persian lilac, pride-of-india, china tree, chinaberry | tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree. |
| ~ arishth, azadirachta indica, margosa, melia azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree | large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia. |
| ~ chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree, satinwood | East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood. |
| ~ silver ash | any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia. |
| ~ langsat, langset, lanseh tree, lansium domesticum | East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry. |
| ~ african walnut, lovoa klaineana | tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany. |
| ~ turreae | any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers. |
| ~ lepidobotrys | African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds. |
| ~ caracolito, ruptiliocarpon caracolito | large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families. |
| ~ cork tree, phellodendron amurense | deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark. |
| ~ poncirus trifoliata, trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange | small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges. |
| ~ prickly ash | any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches. |
| ~ bitterwood tree | any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste. |
| ~ kirkia wilmsii, pepper tree | small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs. |
| ~ willow, willow tree | any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix. |
| ~ sandalwood tree, santalum album, true sandalwood | parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests. |
| ~ eucarya acuminata, fusanus acuminatus, quandang, quandong, quandong tree | Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed. |
| ~ aalii | a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood. |
| ~ soapberry, soapberry tree | a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin. |
| ~ aroeira blanca, schinus chichita | small resinous tree or shrub of Brazil. |
| ~ molle, pepper tree, peruvian mastic tree, schinus molle | small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits. |
| ~ brazilian pepper tree, schinus terebinthifolius | small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen. |
| ~ diospyros ebenum, ebony tree, ebony | tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork. |
| ~ andaman marble, diospyros kurzii, marble-wood, marblewood | large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood. |
| ~ balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, manilkara bidentata, balata | a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber. |
| ~ palaquium gutta, gutta-percha tree | one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha. |
| ~ gutta-percha tree | one of several East Indian trees yielding gutta-percha. |
| ~ calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, pouteria zapota, sapote | tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum. |
| ~ ceratopetalum gummiferum, christmas bush, christmas tree | Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration. |
| ~ plane tree, platan, sycamore | any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits. |
| ~ calabash tree, crescentia cujete, calabash | tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds. |
| ~ cordia gerascanthus, princewood, spanish elm | tropical American timber tree. |
| ~ avicennia officinalis, white mangrove | a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific. |
| ~ aegiceras majus, black mangrove | an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida. |
| ~ tectona grandis, teak | tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood. |
| ~ sapwood | newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction. |
| ~ duramen, heartwood | the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood. |
| ~ ligneous plant, woody plant | a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems. |
| ~ snag | a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest.; "a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds" |
| ~ timber tree | any tree that is valued as a source of lumber or timber. |
| ~ treelet | a small tree. |
| ~ arbor | tree (as opposed to shrub). |
| ~ bean tree | any of several trees having seedpods as fruits. |
| ~ pollard | a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage. |
| ~ sapling | young tree. |
| ~ shade tree | a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight. |
| ~ gymnospermous tree | any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta. |
| ~ angiospermous tree, flowering tree | any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary. |
| ~ fever tree | any of several trees having leaves or bark used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever. |
| ~ stump, tree stump | the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled. |
| ~ bonsai | a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot. |
| ~ treetop, crown | the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant. |
| ~ nakedwood | any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood. |
| ~ hazel, hazel tree, pomaderris apetala | Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts. |
| ~ tree branch, limb | any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree. |
| ~ tree trunk, trunk, bole | the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. |
| ~ burl | a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree. |
| ~ tree of knowledge | the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve. |
| n. (shape) | 2. tree, tree diagram | a figure that branches from a single root.; "genealogical tree" |
| ~ plane figure, two-dimensional figure | a two-dimensional shape. |
| ~ cladogram | a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships. |
| ~ stemma | a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work. |
| n. (person) | 3. sir herbert beerbohm tree, tree | English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917). |
| ~ actor, histrion, thespian, role player, player | a theatrical performer. |
| ~ theatrical producer | someone who produces theatrical performances. |
| v. (motion) | 4. corner, tree | force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape. |
| ~ channelise, channelize, guide, maneuver, steer, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, direct | direct the course; determine the direction of travelling. |
| v. (contact) | 5. tree | plant with trees.; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer" |
| ~ plant, set | put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground.; "Let's plant flowers in the garden" |
| v. (competition) | 6. tree | chase an animal up a tree.; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels" |
| ~ chase, dog, give chase, go after, tail, chase after, trail, track, tag | go after with the intent to catch.; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" |
| v. (change) | 7. shoetree, tree | stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree. |
| ~ elongate, stretch | make long or longer by pulling and stretching.; "stretch the fabric" |
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| n. (substance) | 1. wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| ~ beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction. |
| ~ bentwood | wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture.; "bentwood chairs" |
| ~ chopping block | a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split. |
| ~ spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.. |
| ~ pine | straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus. |
| ~ larch | wood of a larch tree. |
| ~ fir | nonresinous wood of a fir tree. |
| ~ cedarwood, cedar | durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests. |
| ~ spruce | light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork. |
| ~ hemlock | soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock. |
| ~ cypress | wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus. |
| ~ redwood | the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees. |
| ~ sandarac, citronwood | durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain). |
| ~ kauri | white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis. |
| ~ yellowwood | the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees. |
| ~ yew | wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows. |
| ~ lancewood | durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools. |
| ~ true tulipwood, whitewood, yellow poplar, tulipwood, white poplar | light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer. |
| ~ zebrawood | handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork. |
| ~ cocoswood, cocuswood, granadilla wood | wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets. |
| ~ shittimwood | wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle. |
| ~ sabicu, sabicu wood | the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany. |
| ~ bamboo | the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles. |
| ~ tulipwood | the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees. |
| ~ balsa, balsa wood | strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats. |
| ~ silver quandong | pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree. |
| ~ obeche | the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering. |
| ~ basswood, linden | soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork. |
| ~ beefwood | any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork. |
| ~ briarwood, brier-wood, brierwood | wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes. |
| ~ beechwood, beech | wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles. |
| ~ chestnut | wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. |
| ~ oak | the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring. |
| ~ birch | hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood. |
| ~ alder | wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc. |
| ~ hazel | the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris). |
| ~ olive | hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork. |
| ~ ash | strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats. |
| ~ ironwood | exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees. |
| ~ walnut | hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling. |
| ~ hickory | valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees. |
| ~ pecan | wood of a pecan tree. |
| ~ pyinma | relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle; light reddish brown, smooth and lustrous. |
| ~ gumwood, gum | wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum. |
| ~ eucalyptus | wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber. |
| ~ tupelo | pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum. |
| ~ poon | wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars. |
| ~ red lauan | hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany. |
| ~ elmwood, elm | hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture. |
| ~ brazilwood | heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods. |
| ~ locust | hardwood from any of various locust trees. |
| ~ logwood | very hard brown to brownish-red heartwood of a logwood tree; used in preparing a purplish red dye. |
| ~ rosewood | hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork. |
| ~ kingwood | handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork. |
| ~ granadilla wood | dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets. |
| ~ blackwood | very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees. |
| ~ panama redwood, quira | hard heavy red wood of a quira tree. |
| ~ red sandalwood, ruby wood | hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork. |
| ~ black locust | strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay. |
| ~ cherry | wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry. |
| ~ fruitwood | wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork. |
| ~ lemonwood | hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods. |
| ~ incense wood | fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium. |
| ~ mahogany | wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture. |
| ~ satinwood | hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools. |
| ~ orangewood | fine-grained wood of an orange tree; used in fine woodwork. |
| ~ citronwood | wood of a citron tree. |
| ~ guaiac wood, guaiacum wood | heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes. |
| ~ guaiac, lignum vitae, guaiacum | hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum. |
| ~ poplar | soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar. |
| ~ sandalwood | close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork. |
| ~ boxwood, turkish boxwood | very hard tough close-grained light yellow wood of the box (particularly the common box); used in delicate woodwork: musical instruments and inlays and engraving blocks. |
| ~ maple | wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring. |
| ~ sumac | wood of a sumac. |
| ~ ebony | hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys. |
| ~ lacewood, sycamore | variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree. |
| ~ teak, teakwood | hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding. |
| ~ dogwood | hard tough wood of any dogwood of the genus Cornus; resembles boxwood. |
| ~ sapwood | newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction. |
| ~ duramen, heartwood | the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood. |
| ~ burl | the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer. |
| ~ brushwood | the wood from bushes or small branches.; "they built a fire of brushwood" |
| ~ cabinet wood | moderately dense wood used for cabinetwork.; "teak and other heavy cabinet wood" |
| ~ driftwood | wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore. |
| ~ lignin | a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants. |
| ~ log | a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches. |
| ~ lumber, timber | the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material. |
| ~ matchwood | wood suitable for making matchsticks. |
| ~ matchwood, splinters | wood in small pieces or splinters.; "the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks" |
| ~ plant material, plant substance | material derived from plants. |
| ~ sawdust | fine particles of wood made by sawing wood. |
| ~ wicker | slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork. |
| ~ dyewood | any wood from which dye is obtained. |
| ~ hardwood | the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers). |
| ~ softwood, deal | wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir). |
| ~ raw wood | wood that is not finished or painted. |
| ~ knot | a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged.; "the saw buckled when it hit a knot" |
| n. (group) | 2. forest, wood, woods | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area. |
| ~ botany, flora, vegetation | all the plant life in a particular region or period.; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" |
| ~ bosk | a small wooded area. |
| ~ grove | a small growth of trees without underbrush. |
| ~ jungle | an impenetrable equatorial forest. |
| ~ rain forest, rainforest | a forest with heavy annual rainfall. |
| ~ underbrush, undergrowth, underwood | the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| ~ old growth, virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity. |
| ~ second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting. |
| n. (person) | 3. natalie wood, wood | United States film actress (1938-1981). |
| ~ actress | a female actor. |
| n. (person) | 4. sir henry joseph wood, sir henry wood, wood | English conductor (1869-1944). |
| ~ conductor, music director, director | the person who leads a musical group. |
| n. (person) | 5. ellen price wood, mrs. henry wood, wood | English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887). |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (person) | 6. grant wood, wood | United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942). |
| ~ painter | an artist who paints. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument | any wind instrument other than the brass instruments. |
| ~ beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed | a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed. |
| ~ finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it. |
| ~ flute, transverse flute | a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. |
| ~ thumbhole | the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb. |
| ~ wind instrument, wind | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. wood | a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head.; "metal woods are now standard" |
| ~ brassie | (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated that a driver but less than a spoon. |
| ~ number one wood, driver | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee. |
| ~ golf-club, golf club, club | golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball. |
| ~ metal wood | golf wood with a metal head instead of the traditional wooden head. |
| ~ spoon | formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face. |
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