Phrase Hound found 800 phrases and 230 compound words that contain tree. The most common are listed below. Open tree in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 800
- family treeA diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
- palm treeA tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.
- Christmas treeAn evergreen tree (usually a conifer), or an artificial tree made to resemble this, which is typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often an angel or star at its tip, and used as a decoration during the Christmas holiday season.
- apple treeAny tree that bears apples, principally Malus domestica but also certain wild species.
- tree trunkThe main structural member of a tree.
- tea treeThe tea plant (Camellia sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained.
- spanning treeA tree structure which includes all vertices of a graph.
- tree of heavenAn Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having foliage similar to that of the sumacs and ill-scented staminate flowers, much used in traditional Chinese medicine, but considered invasive and often subject to control efforts.
- decision treeA visualization of a complex decision-making situation in which the possible decisions and their likely outcomes are organized in the form of a graph that resembles a tree.
- tree of knowledgeOne of the trees in the Garden of Eden. In Christian tradition, Adam and Eve eating its forbidden fruit was the original sin that led to the fall of man in Genesis 3.
- service treeEither of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica or Sorbus torminalis.
- binary treeA data structure in which each node has at most two children, each node but the root has one parent, and there are no cycles.
- tree of lifeA kind of tree, the arborvitae; an individual thereof.
- oak treeA tree of the genus Quercus, bearing acorns and having lobed leaves.
- box treeAny of several trees, of the genus Buxus, often used as a hedge, for topiary, and as a source of boxwood
- tree-ringAlternative spelling of tree ring.
- cherry treeA tree of the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry, and the wood of the tree, cherrywood, used in woodworking.
- Tree IslandAn island of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea administered under Sansha, Hainan, China (claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam).
- tree-lineThe edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing; the timberline.
- fruit treeA tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.
- cat treeA structure of platforms and scratching posts designed for a cat to play on.
- ash treeA tree of the genus Fraxinus, with compound leaves and a tough, flexible wood.
- orange treeCitrus sinensis, a fruit tree that bears oranges. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- olive treeAn evergreen tree, Olea europaea, that produces olives as fruit.
- pear treeA tree of the genus Pyrus, which bears the pears as fruits.
Compound words 230
- doubletreea device that connects two horses to a wagon or other implement. The tugs of a harness are connected to a singletree, two of which are connected to a doubletree, which, in turn, is connected to the implement.
- treehouseA house, or similar structure within a tree, or several trees, built with light materials.
- gantryA framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- treetopThe crown or uppermost branches of a tree.
- treebankA database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
- treenplural of tree: 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.
- quadtreeA treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to four children, most often used to partition a two-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.
- treestandAn open or enclosed platform secured to trees to provide a vantage point for hunters.
- KingstreeA city, the county seat of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States.
- treebeardA pendulous branching lichen, Usnea barbata, resembling hair.