Christmas tree
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- noun
- Australian
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- It smells like a Christmas tree and completely uplifts your brain.
- Christmas tree farm
Examples
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In Australia, the Christmas tree is often admired for its striking yellow blossoms.
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I mean, you have a beautiful Christmas tree... right outside the kitchen window and none in the house.
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I'd like to buy a Christmas tree.
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Lacey, you do not have a Christmas tree?
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Lacey, you do not have a Christmas tree!
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I got Christmas tree lights from father O'Hara.
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Where I am from, my father cuts down Christmas tree himself in Chernyayevsky Forest.
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It had been completely overgrown and had become a dumping ground for old Christmas trees and trash.
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The vibrant flowers of the Christmas tree tree bloom beautifully in spring.
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During the holidays, many families choose a Christmas tree to enhance their festive decorations.
Synonyms
A small evergreen tree from Western Australia with bright yellow-orange flowers and roots that take water from nearby plants
A native Western Australian tree with bright orange flowers called the Christmas tree
A small evergreen tree from western Australia with bright orange flowers that lives on grass roots
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'Christmas' (the holiday) + 'tree' (a woody plant) — i.e., a tree associated with Christmas, typically decorated. This is a common, cross-linguistic compound pattern that a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand.
Etymology
Christmas tree is the name for an Australian plant whose bright yellow flowers bloom in December, so it looks like a small Christmas tree and people called it that.