to tree
- verb
- /triː/
- Volunteers will tree the community garden this weekend to enhance its beauty.
Examples
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They aim to tree along the riverbank to improve the local environment and wildlife habitat.
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CUT TO TREE LIMBS
Fiction book (1990) -
The city plans to tree the park in order to provide more shade for visitors.
Synonyms
To plant trees on land that did not have them before
To plant trees around a place to give shade
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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Etymology
The verb tree comes from the noun tree and simply means 'to plant trees' or make a place have trees. So to tree a park is to put trees there to give shade and beauty.