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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves |
| Synonyms: | forest, hardwood, pulp, sapling, seedling, shrub, softwood, stock, timber, topiary, wood, woods |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
| Main Entry: | corner |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trap |
| Synonyms: | bottle, bring to bay, capture, catch, collar, fool, get on ropes, have up a tree, mousetrap, nab, put out, seize, tree, trick, trouble |
| Antonyms: | allow, let go, release |
| Main Entry: | family tree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genealogical chart |
| Synonyms: | ancestral tree, ancestry, bloodline, descent, family history, genealogical chart, genealogical tree, genealogy, heredity, line, lineage, pedigree, stemma, tree |
| Main Entry: | landmark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | historical or notable sight |
| Synonyms: | battleground, benchmark, bend, blaze, feature, fragment, guide, hill, mark, marker, memorial, milepost, milestone, monument, mountain, museum, promontory, remnant, ruins, souvenir, specimen, stone, survival, trace, tree, vantage point, vestige, waypost |
| Main Entry: | plant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organism belonging to the vegetable kingdom |
| Synonyms: | annual, biennial, bush, creeper, cutting*, flower, grass, greenery, herb, perennial, seedling, shoot, shrub, slip, sprout, tree, vine, weed |
| Antonyms: | animal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sapling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small tree |
| Synonyms: | seedling, tree, young, youth |
| Main Entry: | shrub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosket, brier, bush, foliage, hedge, shrubbery, thicket, topiary, tree |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
| Main Entry: | wood/woods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
| Synonyms: | copse, grove, lumber, thicket, timber, timberland, trees, weald, woodland |
| Main Entry: | wood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
| Synonyms: | copse, grove, lumber, thicket, timber, timberland, trees, weald, woodland, woods |
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