Tree
noun — Plural: Treen, trees
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- (a woody, perennial plant with one main stem or trunk, a piece or framework of wood, a treelike thing, a treelike bush or shrub, a gallows, a diagram of family descent) ព្រឹក្ស, apple tree ដើមឈើ (ព្រឹក្ស), family tree ពង្សាវលី
verb — past tense: treed ; past participle: treed ; present participle: treeing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To drive to a tree, to spread out in a treeshape a tree at a loss, in a difficult situation) ដេញ (សត្វ) ឱ្យឡើងដើមឈើ
Example: Family tree, Christmas use, branches of tree, a rose tree, to tree on opossum, a shoe tree; a hat tree.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Treen, trees
- 1.
- Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
- 2.
- Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
- 3.
- A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
- 4.
- A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
- 5.
- A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
verb — past tense: treed ; past participle: treed ; present participle: treeing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot.
- 1.
- Wood, timber