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# trellis

«trellis» in Mova's school dictionary: **aframe of crossed wooden strips or wire that a climbing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (trellises); verb (trellises, trellised, trellising)

### meaning for a pupil

A trellis is aframe of crossed wooden strips or wire that a climbing plant grows up. To trellis is to train a plant onto such a frame. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trellis/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a trellis is a garden support for a vine; the fox looks at grapes hanging from a trellised vine

### examples

- The roses climb up the wooden trellis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trellis/#x1)
- The fox could not reach the grapes on the high trellis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trellis/#x2)
- Dad put a trellis against the wall for the beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trellis/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a trellis is a pattern of crossing lines, not a count.

### Trees and pragmatics

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