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tree

[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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A mountain lion lounging on the sidewalk under the shade of a tree has shut down a street in San Dimas while wildlife officials rush to the area to capture the animal Friday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

‘He threatened to cut the roots’: A tree fell onto my neighbor’s property during a storm.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Genetic family tree studies show that such transfers have occurred, but scientists have generally assumed that jumping genes traveled as passengers inside plasmids or viruses.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Busch, a former Dodger, coincidentally is part of the Skubal trade tree.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

She was so tight, they said, that she’d sit out under a tree on a hot day to save the shade on her porch.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

It could also be cheaper and less environmentally damaging than cutting down trees.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Geuneulro, named after the Korean term for "shaded road", takes into account the positions of the sun and shadows cast by buildings and trees to recommend the most shaded routes through the city.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Shortly after, the developer bulldozed the entire place, ripped out trees and erected a 4,700-square-foot box house complete with an eight-foot-tall tiger painted by the front door.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Wealthier neighborhoods tend to have better-managed green space, with the leafy parts of trees growing far above lawns or planted flowers.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Other inhabitants use silence for cover—the lizards crawling on dead trees, the hordes of gnats hovering above our heads, and the worms wiggling in and out of the muddy swamp floor.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 24, 2025

The cattle, which were tracked from June to August over two years, had access to 625 acres of grasslands and treed areas ranging in elevation from 600 to 2,028 feet.

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 2024

Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2023

Some farmers positioned portable wind breaks and used treed areas to protect their herds from potentially deadly winds, said Karin Schmid, beef production and extension lead at the Alberta Beef Producers industry group.

From Reuters Dec. 23, 2022

When I came up to the tree I thought Little Ann had treed Old Dan.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

By 10 a.m. the dogs didn’t appear any closer to treeing whatever it was they were chasing.

From Washington Times Apr. 3, 2016

Well-fed raccoons lay trails to nearby trees, which the hounds are allowed to bark up only briefly to minimize sight treeing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went to work then, trailing and treeing the squirrels that Little Arliss was scaring up off the ground.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Went hunting on the Neck, and visited the plantation there, and killed a fox after treeing it three times and chasing it three hours.

From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)




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