tree
- noun
- /triː/
- For example, tree growth depends on mutualistic associations between the trees and fungi that infect their roots.
- family tree
- tree structure
- species tree
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Watch on YouTubeSuppose for example, your tree is a path.
- Suppose for example, your tree is a path.
- But remember, those branches of the tree come from one single neuron.
- Whereas next little route down the thought tree is I'm unhappy.
- So I just kept building these trees and seeing who would fit.
Examples
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This will explain everything you need to know... and show you how to get all the documents you need... to trace your or anyone else's family tree.
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For each K, we'll have at most one tree of rank K.
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Here is a phylogenetic tree of some of the mammals.
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Down the hallway, behind Billie Jean, a decorated Christmas tree is lit up in the living room.
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In her history class, she created a family tree that illustrated her ancestors' relationships.
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The software uses a data tree to represent the hierarchical structure of the information.
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This diagram shows how the different species are related in the evolutionary tree.
Synonyms
An arrangement of people or things in levels with higher levels controlling lower ones
A drawing that shows lines branching from one point to show connections, like a family tree
A way of organising information in levels like a tree
Idioms
Children often look and behave like their parents
To make ripe fruit or other things fall from a tree by moving its branches quickly
Compounds
A large strong tree with leaves that have deep rounded edges and small nuts called acorns
- Offensive
A person who wants to protect trees and nature, sometimes used as an insult
A large tree with broad leaves and strong wood often planted in parks and streets for shade
- Literature
The tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit made Adam and Eve able to tell right from wrong
A large tree that makes nuts you can eat in prickly cases and has leaves that turn brown in autumn
A South American tree that gives a sticky white liquid used to make natural rubber
- US
A large branching desert plant with spiky leaves and white flower clusters that grows in the southwestern United States
A large tree with pale, peeling bark, broad leaves, and round seed balls that gives shade
A large leafy tree with heart-shaped leaves and sweet-smelling yellow flowers often planted for shade
- US
An American tree with strong wood used for furniture that produces edible nuts
- Australian
An animal like a kangaroo that lives in trees in New Guinea and northern Australia
- US
A tall North American tree that has large yellow and green tulip-shaped flowers and soft pale wood for furniture
A slow-moving animal that lives in trees in Central and South America and hangs upside down to eat leaves
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Tree is used for diagrams because the picture looks like a real tree, with a trunk and branches that split off, as in a 'family tree'. So a tree in math or computing shows how things are connected by branching lines.