Definitions
stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
Word origin
From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true.
Used in a sentence
“Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.”
“Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.”
“The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues
01“Oak or pine”4 letters
02“Park shade source”4 letters
03“Plant with bark”4 letters
04“Shade giver with roots”4 letters
05“Source of lumber”4 letters
06“Woody plant”4 letters
07“Woody trunk plant”4 letters
08“Plant with a trunk”4 letters
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