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Of trees: Rising in a slender tapering form without much branching.
That spires or rises up taperingly to a point; frequently poetic or rhetorical, soaring aloft or… Of trees. (Cf. spiral, adj.2 b.)
Rising like a spire; tall and tapering or pointed. Of trees.