Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen or artificial tree decorated, as with lights and ornaments, during the Christmas season.
- noun A device that consists of pipes and valves and caps a producing natural gas or oil well in order to control its flow.
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- noun A
conifer used during theChristmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights andornaments and often astar orangel at its tip. - noun racing A pole with lights, similar to a
traffic signal , used for signalling the start of anautomobile race . - noun The collection of valves sometimes found at the top of a working oil well.
- noun bodybuilding A pattern of
muscles visible in the lower back, shaped to look like a conifer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark
- noun medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed
- noun Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
- noun an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration
- noun a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
Etymologies
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Christmas + tree
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