English words for 'A large deciduous tree, Quercus petraea.'
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noun
- A tree of the species Quercus palustris.
- A tree of the species Quercus bicolor.
- A tree of the species Casuarina glauca.
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
- Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers
noun
- The tree Quercus palustris.
- The tree Quercus ellipsoidalis.
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large nearly semi-evergreen oak of southeastern United States; thrives in damp soil
noun
- a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
- Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
- (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
- the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
- The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
- (wine) The flavor of oak.
- Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
- Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
- Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
- The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
- A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
- (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
adj
verb
noun
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- (rare) A female chimpanzee.
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
verb
noun
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)
- winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
- Honckenya peploides
- shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
- common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant
- pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
- moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
- Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
- Halimione portulacoides
- a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
noun
- a tree of the genus Eucalyptus
- wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber
- A greenish colour, like that of eucalyptus leaves.
- Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.
- (loosely) Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae, especially of the genera Corymbia and Angophora formerly classified in the Eucalyptus genus.
noun
- A tree of the species Prunus amygdalus (order Rosales).
- The seed of this tree, which is unpalatably bitter and bears many times the cyanide of the sweet almond.
- A tree of the species Brabejum stellatifolium (order Proteales).
- almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes
noun
- a coniferous tree
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
verb
noun
- (usually countable) An oak tree with wood of a red tint, with leaves that have pointed lobes, Quercus rubra, native to eastern North America.
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America.
- (usually uncountable) Wood from such trees.
- (usually countable) A similar tree of any of the many species in Quercus subg. Quercus, section Lobatae, found mostly in North America.
- (usually countable, Australia) Carnarvonia araliifolia, a rainforest tree from Australia.
- any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles
noun
- Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers.
- The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.
- a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
- handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
verb
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
noun
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
noun
- Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
- Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
- A water chinquapin, an aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
- Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
- Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
- Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
- A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).
- Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
- shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
- small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
- shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States
noun
- A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.
- tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
noun
- A tree of the species Quercus palustris.
- A tree of the species Quercus bicolor.
- A tree of the species Casuarina glauca.
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
- Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers
noun
- The tree Quercus palustris.
- The tree Quercus ellipsoidalis.
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large nearly semi-evergreen oak of southeastern United States; thrives in damp soil
noun
- a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
- Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
- (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
- the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
- The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
- (wine) The flavor of oak.
- Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
- Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
- Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
- The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase sport one's oak.)
- A rich brown color, like that of oak wood.
- (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
adj
verb
noun
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- (rare) A female chimpanzee.
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
verb
noun
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)
- winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
- Honckenya peploides
- shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
- common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant
- pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
- moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
- Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
- Halimione portulacoides
- a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
noun
- a tree of the genus Eucalyptus
- wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber
- A greenish colour, like that of eucalyptus leaves.
- Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.
- (loosely) Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae, especially of the genera Corymbia and Angophora formerly classified in the Eucalyptus genus.
noun
- A tree of the species Prunus amygdalus (order Rosales).
- The seed of this tree, which is unpalatably bitter and bears many times the cyanide of the sweet almond.
- A tree of the species Brabejum stellatifolium (order Proteales).
- almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes
noun
- a coniferous tree
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
verb
noun
- (usually countable) An oak tree with wood of a red tint, with leaves that have pointed lobes, Quercus rubra, native to eastern North America.
- Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America.
- (usually uncountable) Wood from such trees.
- (usually countable) A similar tree of any of the many species in Quercus subg. Quercus, section Lobatae, found mostly in North America.
- (usually countable, Australia) Carnarvonia araliifolia, a rainforest tree from Australia.
- any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles
noun
- Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers.
- The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.
- a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
- handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
noun
- Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
- Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
- A water chinquapin, an aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
- Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
- Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
- Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
- A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).
- Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
- shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
- small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
- shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States
noun
- A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.
- tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
verb
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
noun
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
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