Clues for the word "TREE"

We've had 1179 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2548 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on June 11, 2026.

Definition of tree

n. - Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
n. - Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
n. - A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
n. - A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
n. - Wood; timber.
n. - A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
v. t. - To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
v. t. - To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.