Amber tree
() A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor. |
Bay tree
() A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). |
Beam tree
() A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Beech tree
() The beech. |
Bo tree
() The peepul tree |
Bully tree
() The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. |
By-street
(n.) A separate, private, or obscure street |
Candleberry tree
() A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles |
Caper tree
() See Capper, a plant, 2. |
Cow tree
() A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk. |
Crab tree
() See under Crab. |
Fir tree
() See Fir. |
Galapee tree
() The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. |
Gatten tree
() A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). |
Gourd tree
() A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. |
Grass tree
() An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. |
Grass tree
() A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). |
Hep tree
() The wild dog-rose. |
Hip tree
() The dog-rose. |
Improvement
(n.) The act of improving |
Improvement
(n.) The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed |
Improvement
(n.) The state of being improved |
Improvement
(n.) Increase |
Improvement
(n.) Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. |
Improvement
(n.) A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition. |
Ironbark tree
() The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders |
Locust tree
() A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia. |
Mahwa tree
() An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit. |
Neem tree
() An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. See Margosa. |
Nickar tree
() Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree. |
Nicker tree
() The plant producing nicker nuts. |
Ople tree
() The witch-hazel. |
Peepul tree
() A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. |
Pipal tree
() Same as Peepul tree. |
Pippul tree
() Same as Peepul tree. |
Planer tree
() A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit. |
Plane tree
() Same as 1st Plane. |
Quicken tree
() The European rowan tree |
Rowan tree
() A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. sambucifolia). |
Shea tree
() An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained |
Shittah tree
(n.) A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made |
Soapberry tree
() Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen |
Street
(a.) Originally, a paved way or road |
Til tree
() See Teil. |
Tree
(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. |
Tree
(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches |
Tree
(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber |
Tree
(n.) A cross or gallows |
Tree
(n.) Wood |
Tree
(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. |
| improvement | the act of improving something, their improvements increased the value of the property |
self-improvement
selfeformation | the act of improving yourself |
guerrilla theater
street theater | dramatization of a social issue, enacted outside in a park or on the street |
arboriculture
tree farming | the cultivation of tree for the production of timber |
| tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
arborolatry
tree-worship | the worship of trees |
revival resurgence
revitalization
revitalisation
revivification | bringing again into activity and prominence, the revival of trade, a revival of a neglected play by Moliere, the Gothic revival in architecture |
| tree sparrow Spizella arborea | finch common in winter in the northern U.S. |
| tree sparrow Passer montanus | Eurasian sparrow smaller than the house sparrow |
woodhewer
woodcreeper
woodreeper
tree creeper | any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers |
creeper
tree creeper | any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
white-bellied swallow
tree swallow Iridoprocne bicolor | bluish-green-and-white North American swallow, nests in tree cavities |
| tree frog tree-frog | any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes |
tree toad
tree frog tree-frog | arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe, of southeast Asia and Australia and America |
Pacific tree toad
Hyla regilla | the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America |
| chameleon tree frog | a form of tree toad |
tree lizard
Urosaurus ornatus | a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico |
tree swift
crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
tree wallaby
tree kangaroo | arboreal wallabies of New Guinea and northern Australia having hind and forelegs of similar length |
| tree cricket | pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation |
snowy tree cricket
Oecanthus fultoni | pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America |
| tree squirrel | any typical arboreal squirrel |
sloth
tree sloth | any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America, they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits |
| tree shrew | insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout |
pentail
pen-tail
pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
alley
alleyway
back street | a narrow street with walls on both sides |
barrel organ
grind organ
hand organ
hurdy gurdy
hurdy-gurdy
street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
blind alley
cul de sac
dead-end street
impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
| Christmas tree | an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration |
clothes tree
coat tree
coat stand | an upright pole with pegs or hooks on which to hang clothing |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
| cross street | a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it |
crucifix
rood
rood-tree | representation of the cross on which Jesus died |
drug of abuse
street drug | a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects), drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction |
gallows tree
gallows-tree
gibbet
gallous | alternative terms for gallows |
local road
local street | a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it |
main street
high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
| one-way street | a street on which vehicular traffic is allowed to move in only one direction |
| side street | a street intersecting a main street and terminating there |
| street | a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings, they walked the streets of the small town, he lives on Nassau Street |
| street | the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks, the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel, be careful crossing the street |
| street clothes | ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.) |
streetlight
street lamp | a lamp supported on a lamppost, for illuminating a street |
| tree house | a playhouse built in the branches of a tree |
| two-way street | a street on which vehicular traffic can move in either of two directions, you have to look both ways crossing a two-way street |
street credibility
street cred
cred | credibility among young fashionable urban individuals |
| street smarts | a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment |
| one-way street | unilateral interaction, cooperation cannot be a one-way street |
| Fleet Street | British journalism |