noun
1. tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark
• Syn: ↑European silver fir, ↑Abies alba
• Hypernyms: ↑silver fir
2. medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed
• Syn: ↑amabilis fir, ↑white fir, ↑Pacific silver fir, ↑red silver fir, ↑Abies amabilis
• Hypernyms: ↑silver fir
3. Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
• Syn: ↑Christmas bush, ↑Ceratopetalum gummiferum
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ceratopetalum, ↑genus Ceratopetalum
4. a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
• Syn: ↑flame tree, ↑fire tree, ↑Nuytsia floribunda
• Hypernyms: ↑parasitic plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Nuytsia, ↑genus Nuytsia
5. an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration
• Hypernyms: ↑decoration, ↑ornament, ↑ornamentation
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noun, pl ⋯ trees [count]
: an evergreen tree that is decorated in people's houses at Christmastime
We hung the lights on the Christmas tree.
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an ↑evergreen tree, or an artificial tree that looks similar, that people cover with decorations and coloured lights and have in their homes or outside at Christmas
Useful english dictionary. 2012.