Definition of trees

"trees" in the noun sense

1. tree

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

2. tree, tree diagram

a figure that branches from a single root

"genealogical tree"

3. Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

"trees" in the verb sense

1. corner, tree

force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

2. tree

plant with trees

"this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

3. tree

chase an animal up a tree

"the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"

"her dog likes to tree squirrels"

4. tree, shoetree

stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for trees

Trees eat but once. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Grove nods at grove. [ Pope ]

Cause not a tree to die. [ King of Siam ]

This is the forest primeval. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Strait trees have crooked roots. [ Proverb ]

So many branches, so many trees. [ Motto ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. [ Wordsworth ]

He loves his old hereditary trees. [ Cowley ]

The groves were God's first temples. [ Bryant ]

He cannot see the wood for the trees. [ German Proverb ]

A tree in the desert is still a tree. [ Talmud ]

You can't see the wood for the trees. [ Proverb ]

Great trees keep under the little ones. [ Proverb ]

Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! [ Campbell ]

Sweet is the air with the budding haws,
and the valley stretching for miles below
Is white with blossoming cherry-trees,
as if just covered with lightest snow. [ Longfellow ]

Some to the holly hedge
Nestling repair; and to the thicket some;
Some to the rude protection of the thorn. [ Thomson ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

No tree in all the grove but has its charm
Though each its hue peculiar. [ Cowper ]

Great trees are good for nothing but shade. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mourner yew and builder oak were there. [ Dryden ]

The dureful oak, whose sap is not yet dried. [ Spenser ]

Ye flowers that droop forsaken by the spring;
Ye birds that left by summer cease to sing;
Yet trees that fade when autumn heats remove.
Say, is not absence death to those who love? [ Pope ]

Slips of yew, silvered in the moon's eclipse. [ William Shakespeare ]

The trees were unctuous fir, and mountain ash. [ Dryden ]

But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. [ William Shakespeare ]

But should you lure
From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots
Of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook,
Behooves you then to ply your finest art. [ Thomson ]

The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees.
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
Supreme in state; and in three more decays. [ Dryden ]

Listen! O, listen!
Here ever hum the golden bees
Underneath full-blossomed trees.
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. [ Lowell ]

The lives of trees lie only in the barks,
And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. [ Butler ]

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

O days remembered well! remembered all!
The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall;
Those garden rambles in the silent night.
Those trees so shady, and that moon so bright.
That thickset alley by the arbor closed.
That woodbine seat where we at last reposed;
And then the hopes that came and then were gone.
Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on. [ Crabbe ]

The hawthorn trees blow in the dew of the morning. [ Burns ]

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. [ Proverb ]

The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. [ Spenser ]

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. [ Plato ]

Whose roots earth's centre touch, whose heads the skies. [ Walter Harte ]

Under this sod, beneath these trees,
Lyeth the pod of Solomon Pease.
Pease is not here, but only his pod,
He shelled out his soul, which went straight to his God. [ An old American epitaph ]

All the tree-tops lay asleep, like green waves on the sea. [ Shelley ]

I hear the wind among the trees playing celestial symphonies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

What planter will attempt to yoke a sapling wMth a falling oak? [ Swift ]

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation robes. [ Pope ]

Many rise under their burdens, more like camels than palm trees. [ Proverb ]

Worn, gray olive-woods, which seem the fittest foliage for a dream. [ Mrs. Browning ]

The whispering breeze pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. [ Pope ]

And winter, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. [ Alexander Smith ]

No gale disturb the trees, nor aspen leaves confess the gentle breeze. [ Gay ]

It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more trees. [ George Eliot ]

With every change his features played, as aspens show the light and shade. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Wise men in the world are like timber-trees in a hedge, here and there one. [ Proverb ]

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. [ Rollin ]

In heaven the trees of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines yield nectar. [ Milton ]

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. [ Landor ]

Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm. [ Bayard Taylor ]

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age, and high top bald with dry antiquity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. [ Shenstone ]

Poplars and alders ever quivering played, and nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade. [ Pope ]

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe. [ Milton ]

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. [ Sir J. Davies ]

Like some tall tree, the monster of the wood, o'ershading all that under him would grow. [ Dryden ]

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees. [ Young ]

The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky. [ Hood ]

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars. [ Luther ]

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. [ Wm. Penn ]

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me. [ Alice Cary ]

These blasted pines, wrecks of a single winter, barkless, branchless, a blighted trunk upon a cursed root [ Byron ]

The words of men are like the leaves of trees; when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. [ Steiger ]

The years write their records on men's hearts as they do on trees: inner circles of growth which no eye can see. [ Saxe Holm ]

The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees. [ Whately ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. [ Hamerton ]

If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written. [ Kabir ]

Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier droop their boughs. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, tall oaks, branchcharmed by the earnest stars, dream, and so dream, all night without a stir. [ Keats ]

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate. [ General Skobeleff ]

When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. [ Holmes ]

Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]

When I heard that trees grow a new ring for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all our skin layers. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

When a man's pride is subdued it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. [ Beecher ]

The air seems made up of happiness, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the pathless birds, land and water, - all seem to pulsate happiness, to emit it, to breathe it forth upon us; and it falls upon us as dew upon flowers. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]

Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age - flowers before they have bloomed, and trees ere they begin to bear. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar; the case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. [ Shenstone ]

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]

Association is the delight of the heart not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes. [ Willmott ]

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]

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Words within the letters of trees

2 letter words in trees (1 word)

3 letter words in trees (3 words)

4 letter words in trees (5 words)

5 letter words in trees (Anagrams) (6 words)

Word Growth involving trees

Shorter words in trees

re tree

Longer words containing trees

axletrees

boxtrees

cottontrees

entrees

familytrees

gauntrees

gawntrees

grapetrees

gumtrees

plumtrees

retrees

saddletrees

shoetrees

sloetrees

subtrees

treesapper treesappers

treescape treescapes

treeshaped

treestone treestones

whiffletrees

whippletrees

whiptrees