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 (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
Beam (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
Beam (n.) The width of a vessel |
Beam (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
Beam (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
Beam (n.) The pole of a carriage. |
Beam (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving |
Beam (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
Beam (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
Beam (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft |
Beam (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body |
Beam (n.) Fig.: A ray |
Beam (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk |
Beam (v. t.) To send forth |
Beam (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
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. |
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). |
Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Hep tree () The wild dog-rose. |
Hip tree () The dog-rose. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
summer tanager summer redbird Piranga rubra | of middle and southern United States, male is deep roseed the female mostly yellow |
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 |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow 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 |
summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus | flounder of eastern coast of North America |
balance beam beam | a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts |
beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction |
beam | the broad side of a ship, they sighted land on the port beam |
beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
box beam box girder | a beam built up from boards, has a hollow rectangular cross section |
camp summer camp | a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months, city kids get to see the country at a summer camp |
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 |
crucifix rood rood-tree | representation of the cross on which Jesus died |
gallows tree gallows-tree gibbet gallous | alternative terms for gallows |
I-beam | girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
steelyard lever scale beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
summer house | a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer |
tie tie beam | a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating, he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam |
tree house | a playhouse built in the branches of a tree |
beam | (nautical) breadth amidships |
fruit of the poisonous tree | a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used |
radio beam beam | a signal transmitted along a narrow path, guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather |
summer stock | theatrical productions performed by a stock company during the summer |
summer squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer, eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden |
crookneck crookneck squash summer crookneck | yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin |
summer savory summer savoury | herb with delicately flavored leaves with many uses |
genealogy family tree | successive generations of kin |
beam-ends | (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel, on her beam-ends means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical |
timber line timberline tree line | line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes |