Definitions
a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat
Word origin
Borrowed from French espalier, from Italian spalliera, from spalla (“shoulder”).
Used in a sentence
“The garment stalls carried the traditional blue vine-dressers' outfits, sunhats, and the great willow pitchforks grown in espalier at villages like Sauve.”
“It is on this rocky surface that one finds many of the growth forms associated with extreme life conditions: polsters, mat plants, espaliers.”
“Often some night-animal, hedgehog or weasel, setting out on the hunt, disturbed the lovers, or sometimes they heard a ripe peach falling all alone from the espalier.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Flat garden trellis”8 letters
02“Flat-trained tree”8 letters
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