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# tree

«tree» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tall plant with a wooden trunk, branches and leaves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tree, trees)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tree is a tall plant with a wooden trunk, branches and leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#m1)

2) A family tree is a chart showing a family's parents, children and grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#m2)

3) A tree diagram is a drawing with branches that shows choices or parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted, planted or cut down; trees in a park or orchard with fruit on each; in science, trees give oxygen and homes for animals; phrases «climb a tree», «family tree», «Christmas tree», «tree house»

### examples

- There are 33 trees in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x1)
- The workers planted 44 more trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x2)
- Each tree has 12 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x3)
- How many trees will there be? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x4)
- We built a tree house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x5)
- The leaves fall from the trees in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x6)
- You can tell a tree's age by its rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x7)
- Draw your family tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x8)
- Birds nest in the old oak tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x9)
- Don't climb trees near power lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/#x10)

### note

A thing counted. «planted» adds, «cut down» takes away; «each tree has N» gives a rate. Trap: fruit and trees are different things. Trees along a road from end to end are one more than the gaps. Safety: never shelter under a tree in a thunderstorm.

### In the corpora

- [Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/5/)
- [Maple syrup comes from the sugary sap of the sugar maple tree in Canada and the USA.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/17/)
- [Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/9/)
- [Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/9/)
- [Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tree» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tree/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.