| 单词 | tree |
| 释义 | tree —treelike, adj. /tree/, n. , v. , treed, treeing. n. 1. a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground. 2. any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size. 3. something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree or a crosstree. 4. Math. , Ling. See tree diagram. 5. See family tree. 6. a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure. 7. a shoetree or boot tree. 8. a saddletree. 9. a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell. 10. a gallows or gibbet. 11. the cross on which Christ was crucified. 12. Computers. a data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree. 13. See Christmas tree. 14. up a tree, Informal. in a difficult or embarrassing situation; at a loss; stumped. v.t. 15. to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person. 16. Informal. to put into a difficult position. 17. to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot. 18. to furnish (a structure) with a tree. [bef. 900; ME; OE treo(w); c. OFris, ON tre, OS treo, Goth triu; akin to Gk drys oak, Skt, Avestan dru wood] |
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