stem of tree
81tree — A woody plant with a stem or trunk from which branches spring. 34 Am J1st Logs § 2. A part and parcel of the land in which rooted. 42 Am J1st Prop § 19. An interest in real estate, except as to a tree growing in a nursery and raised to be sold… …
82tree diagram — Math., Ling. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops. Also called tree. Cf. phrase structure tree. [1960 65] * * * …
83tree — trÉªË n. plant with wood stem from which branches grow at some height above the ground; bush or shrub similar in appearance to a tree; pole, beam v. force to climb on a tree; put in a difficult situation; put a shoe on a shoetree …
84tree*/*/*/ — [triː] noun [C] a very tall plant that has branches and a thick stem made of wood an oak/ash/willow tree[/ex] • See: bark I, family tree …
85tree fern — /ˈtri fɜn/ (say tree fern) noun any fern, as of the family Cyatheaceae, which attains the size of a tree, sending up a straight trunk like stem with foliage at the summit. Also, Chiefly Tasmania, man fern …
86stem — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. tree trunk, stalk, petiole, pedicle; tube, shaft; cutwater, prow; lineage, extraction, derivation. See ancestry, front. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. peduncle, petiole, pedice; see stalk . • from stem to… …
87stem — I n 1. stalk, trunk, caudex, culm, Brit. haulm, cane, colamus, quill, Bot. caulis, Bot. caulicle, Bot. axis; leafstalk, Bot. petiole, Bot. petiolule, Biol. pedicle, Bot. pedicel, Both Bot., Zool. footstalk, peduncle, Both Bot. funicle, funiculus …
88tree moss — Lichen Li chen (l[imac] k[e^]n; 277), n. [L., fr. Gr. leichh n.] 1. (Bot.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called {Lichenes}), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond like forms, but… …
89tree trunk — main stem of a tree …
90tree trunk — noun the main woody stem of a tree, from which its branches grow …
