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[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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Nearly the entire statistical signal was coming from a single branch of the insect family tree.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The little boy adds a bright rainbow, a shining sun and a tall tree to his illustration, while other displaced children paint alongside him at a shelter in Pereira.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The cougar was found lying on the sidewalk under the shade of a tree, where deputies set up a perimeter to keep vehicles and people away.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

But at its heart stands an ancient tree that locals say has watched over the community for hundreds of years, and remains the spiritual home of the shrine.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

From the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Wolf high in the tree.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

They then placed those characteristics onto two of the largest available species level insect family trees.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

"First of all, there's nature, of course -- there are the trees, the grass," she said, noting, "the trees already look like autumn."

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

He said previously the team would have to climb the trees at night to "try to visually identify a species occupying a bat roost", which was time consuming.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Designed by Gaudí, the Nativity façade is both naturalistic and overflowing with natural imagery: lilies and palm trees, a tortoise and sea turtle, insects and frogs, sheep and ducks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Clare quickened into a four-legged gallop, weaving through the trees.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

My dogs would never stay together when they had treed a coon, so that any way he left a tree, he was met by one of them.

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

I never allowed him to run with packs, but generally used him in treeing coon, which pestered the cornfields during roasting-ear season and in the fall.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams




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