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b. : bhutan cypress
c. : date I 1
2. : a highly conventionalized and often ornate representation of a tree or vine used as a decorative motif and prob. of ultimately Assyrian origin
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1. a tree in the Garden of Eden that yielded food giving everlasting life. Gen 2:9; 3:22.
2. a tree in the heavenly Jerusalem with leaves for the healing of the nations. Rev. 22:2.
3. See arbor vitae.
[1350-1400; ME]
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tree of life noun
1. Arbor vitae
2. A tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit gave everlasting life (Bible, Genesis 2.9)
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Main Entry: ↑tree
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tree of life,
1. a tree in the center of Eden whose fruit gave immortality (in the Bible, Genesis 2:9; 3:22).
2. a tree in the heavenly Jerusalem, the leaves of which were for the healing of the nations (in the Bible, Revelation 22:2).
3. = arbor vitae. (Cf. ↑arbor vitae)
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n.
1) Tree of Life (in the Bible) a tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit imparts eternal life (Gen. 3:22 - 24)
■ an imaginary branching, treelike structure representing the evolutionary divergence of all living creatures
■ (in cabalism) a diagram in the form of a tree bearing spheres that represent the sephiroth
2) the thuja or arbor vitae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.