tree
part of speech
noun (tree, trees)
meaning for a pupil
1) A tree is a tall plant with a wooden trunk, branches and leaves. tree →
2) A family tree is a chart showing a family's parents, children and grandparents. tree →
3) A tree diagram is a drawing with branches that shows choices or parts. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing counted, planted or cut down; trees in a park or orchard with fruit on each; in science, trees give oxygen and homes for animals; phrases «climb a tree», «family tree», «Christmas tree», «tree house»
examples
- There are 33 trees in the park. tree →
- The workers planted 44 more trees. tree →
- Each tree has 12 apples. tree →
- How many trees will there be? tree →
- We built a tree house. tree →
- The leaves fall from the trees in autumn. tree →
- You can tell a tree's age by its rings. tree →
- Draw your family tree. tree →
- Birds nest in the old oak tree. tree →
- Don't climb trees near power lines. tree →
note
A thing counted. «planted» adds, «cut down» takes away; «each tree has N» gives a rate. Trap: fruit and trees are different things. Trees along a road from end to end are one more than the gaps. Safety: never shelter under a tree in a thunderstorm.
In the corpora
- Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.
- Maple syrup comes from the sugary sap of the sugar maple tree in Canada and the USA.
- Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.
- Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.
- Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tree» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.