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tree farm

tree farm

4 3.0
An area where people grow trees to sell for wood or as Christmas trees
  • noun
  • /tri fɑrm/
translation icon : plantación de árboles
  • Today, McCoun said he got to do that for seven years, working on his family's Christmas tree farm, splitting wood and tending to the chickens and steers on the 10-acre property.
  • Christmas tree farm
  • tree farm and nursery
  • own tree farm

And it was a Christmas tree farm beside us, a big one.

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Examples

  • Every November, families visit the tree farm to choose their Christmas trees.

  • My favorite memories are from when we used to go to the Christmas tree farm to get a real tree every year.

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  • And I grew up on a Christmas tree farm; I'm building stuff out of those trees now.

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  • But we've always gone to a Christmas tree farm to pick out our tree, so I guess it kind of evens out.

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  • By partnering with tree farms across the nation, Five Star finds the best trees (no more picked-over pines) and expedites holiday cheer with a 24/7 call center, a mobile app, and more to make ordering simple and fun, as it should be.

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  • The owner of the tree farm specializes in growing trees for timber production.

  • The tree farm provides a variety of species, including pines, firs, and spruces.

Synonyms

farm
vstree farm
∞ 1.0

A place with fields and buildings for growing crops or keeping animals

is specialized in growing trees commercially rather than general farming activities
plantation
vstree farm
2 3.7

An area where trees are planted in rows to form a small wood

is aimed at growing trees commercially rather than for ornamental arrangement
timberland
vstree farm
2 5.1

Land covered with trees used to make wood

is land actively grown and managed specifically to produce commercial timber
forestland
vstree farm
1 2.8

Land that has many trees or is kept to grow trees

is a commercial site where trees are grown and harvested for profit

How Big

tree farm
4 3.0
treestand
  • US
4.8

Surface Forms

tree farm singular
tree farms plural

Morphology

tree + farm

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'tree' (a tall plant) + 'farm' (land used for cultivation); a 'tree farm' is simply a farm where trees are grown and managed for commercial purposes. This noun-noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Tree farm comes from the simple idea of a farm devoted to trees, where people plant, care for, and later cut and sell the trees as wood or as Christmas trees. That's why it means 'an area where trees are grown and managed for business'.