tree | Lernwerd

Forms

1.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.
2.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 tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
3.A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
4.An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.

1.To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- "And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
- When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
- The dog treed the cat.
2.To place in a tree.
- Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
3.To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
4.To take refuge in a tree.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *drew-

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Germanic *trewą

Proto-West Germanic *treu

Old English trēow

Middle English tre

English tree

PIE word

*dóru