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[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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Fallen leaves from a large tree scatter across the neatly trimmed front lawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hinoki is an important timber tree in Japan, but its roots are often left behind and unused after logging.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

A tree in the distance falls, and a giant hand emerges from the ground to put it back in place.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Armstrong's team-mate and fellow Irishman Josh McErlean did not fare as well despite running as high as sixth on Saturday before retiring after a collision with a tree.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The tree branches seem to separate, and the arched roadway appears.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Jassy Drakulic, RHS senior plant pathologist, said gardeners could notice a "remarkable variety of mushrooms and toadstools" appearing in lawns, borders and around trees this autumn.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The city is sick, as evidenced in photos of barren studio lots, burning trees and the boarded-up Cinerama Dome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But the biggest item households recycle is paper, and we aren’t running out of trees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

According to LVV's head of environment Tommi Muilu, work at the sites included the removal of trees and topsoil, the construction of site roads and storage areas, and changes to ditches.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Belle stomps, passing cottonwood trees, their brittle branches beginning to seed.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

The team quickly rallied, secured Ciarlo’s dogs and released their own hounds, which treed a young male they named Orion.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

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

He was wondering if there was another blast in the gun when he heard right up close the wild, wonderful sound of three baying dogs who he knew had treed a bobcat.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

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

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

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

Last of all, the shoe is put upon a treeing machine, where an iron foot stretches it into precisely the shape of the wooden last on which it was made.

From Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan




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