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tree | yggdrasil |

As a noun tree

is a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

As a verb tree

is to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

As a proper noun Yggdrasil is

an immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.

tree

English

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Noun

(en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)
  • A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
    • is the tallest living tree in the world.
    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
  • Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
  • An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.
    • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
  • A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  • The structural frame of a saddle.
  • (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.
  • (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
    • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  • Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • (informal) Marijuana.
  • (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
    • Tyburn tree
  • * Bible, Acts x. 39
    • [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
  • (obsolete) wood; timber
  • * Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
    • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
  • (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

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    Proverbs

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    Hypernyms

    * plant * (in graph theory) graph

    Hyponyms

    * oak, fir, pine * see also:

    Synonyms

    * sapling, seedling

    See also

    * * arboreal

    Verb

    (d)
  • To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    • The dog treed the cat.
  • To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
    • to tree a boot

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    yggdrasil

    English

    (wikipedia Yggdrasil)

    Alternative forms

    * Yggdrasill

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Norse mythology) An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.
  • * (rfdate) Poetic Edda , first poem, stanza 2:
    • I know that an ash-tree stands called Yggdrasill ,
    a high tree, soaked with shining loam;
    from there come the dews which fall in the valley,
    ever green, it stands over the well of fate.
  • * (rfdate) Spike Milligan, Puckoon , chapter 1, page 1:
    • nostrils and legs akimbo, she towered over him like some human Yggdrasill , blotting out the sun.