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. |
Billed (imp. & p. p.) of Bill |
Billed (a.) Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird |
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. |
Duck-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of a duck. |
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. |
Hook-billed (a.) Having a strongly curved bill. |
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. |
Partridge (n.) Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. |
Partridge (n.) Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. |
Partridge (n.) The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). |
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). |
Sea partridge () The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts. |
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 |
Spoon-billed (a.) Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end. |
Stork-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of the stork. |
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 |
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 |
long-billed marsh wren Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
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 |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
ruffed grouse partridge Bonasa umbellus | valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada |
bobwhite bobwhite quail partridge | a popular North American game bird, named for its call |
partridge | small Old World gallinaceous game birds |
Hungarian partridge grey partridge gray partridge Perdix perdix | common European partridge |
red-legged partridge Alectoris ruffa | common western European partridge with red legs |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
mountain quail mountain partridge Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
tinamou partridge | heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds |
black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
tree swift crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
ivorybill ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
tree wallaby tree kangaroo | arboreal wallabies of New Guinea and northern Australia having hind and forelegs of similar length |
boatbill boat-billed heron broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
razorbill razor-billed auk Alca torda | black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill |
thick-billed murre Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
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 |
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 |
tree house | a playhouse built in the branches of a tree |
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 |
partridge | flesh of either quail or grouse |
genealogy family tree | successive generations of kin |
timber line timberline tree line | line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes |
Maine Pine Tree State ME | a state in New England |