trellis

«trellis» in Mova's school dictionary: aframe of crossed wooden strips or wire that a climbing… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (trellises); verb (trellises, trellised, trellising)

meaning for a pupil

A trellis is aframe of crossed wooden strips or wire that a climbing plant grows up. To trellis is to train a plant onto such a frame. tree →

sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a trellis is a garden support for a vine; the fox looks at grapes hanging from a trellised vine

examples

• The roses climb up the wooden trellis. tree →
• The fox could not reach the grapes on the high trellis. tree →
• Dad put a trellis against the wall for the beans. tree →

note

nothing for maths; a trellis is a pattern of crossing lines, not a count.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trellis» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.