bark up the wrong tree |
to direct one's attention, efforts, request, or accusation to the wrong person or thing. |
big tree |
a very tall cone-bearing evergreen found in California; giant sequoia. |
bo tree |
the sacred fig tree under which the Buddha is believed to have received enlightenment. |
button tree |
a West Indian tree or shrub that bears hard, button-shaped fruit and yields heavy, compact wood. |
Christmas tree |
a real or artificial evergreen tree, usually placed indoors and decorated with lights and ornaments at Christmas. |
clothes tree |
an upright stand or pole fitted with an arrangement of hooks or pegs near the top on which clothing is hung. |
dragon tree |
a tree of the agave family with sword-shaped leaves and orange fruit, one source of dragon's blood. |
family tree |
a diagram or chart tracing the ancestors and descendants of an individual or individuals collectively; genealogical tree. [2 definitions] |
flame tree |
any of several trees bearing vivid red flowers, esp. a bottletree with leaves resembling those of the maple. |
fringe tree |
a small tree of the olive family, found in the southern United States, that bears drooping clusters of white flowers. |
fruit tree |
a tree that produces edible fruit. |
grass tree |
any of several related Australian plants having thick, woody stems and stiff, grasslike leaves, and bearing spikes of white flowers. |
gum tree |
any tree that exudes gum, such as the eucalyptus, tupelo, or sapodilla. |
hall tree |
a clothes tree, esp. one standing in an entrance hall. |
Joshua tree |
a yucca tree of the southwestern United States that has swordlike leaves and bears greenish white flowers. |
Judas tree |
a North American and Eurasian tree with purplish flowers; redbud. |
marmalade tree |
a tropical American evergreen tree that bears a plumlike edible fruit. |
palm tree |
any of numerous, mainly tropical, evergreen plants, usu. unbranched and having a crown of large divided leaves, or fronds. |
pepper tree |
a South American ornamental evergreen tree bearing compound leaves and yellowish white flowers. |
planer tree |
a small elm tree with ovate leaves and bearing a small, nutlike fruit which grows in moist areas of the southeast United States. |