tree

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

• yellowwood, yellowwood tree — any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract
• lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata — source of most of the lancewood of commerce
• Guinea pepper, negro pepper, Xylopia aethiopica — tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine
• anise tree — any of several evergreen shrubs and small trees of the genus Illicium
• winter's bark, winter's bark tree, Drimys winteri — South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood
• zebrawood, zebrawood tree — any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood
• granadilla tree, granadillo, Brya ebenus — West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony
• acacia — any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
• coralwood, red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera pavonina — East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
• albizzia, albizia — any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia
• conacaste, elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa — tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber
• inga — any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers; cultivated as ornamentals
• ice-cream bean, Inga edulis — ornamental evergreen tree with masses of white flowers; tropical and subtropical America
• guama, Inga laurina — tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations
• lead tree, white popinac, Leucaena glauca, Leucaena leucocephala — low scrubby tree of tropical and subtropical North America having white flowers tinged with yellow resembling mimosa and long flattened pods
• wild tamarind, Lysiloma latisiliqua, Lysiloma bahamensis — a tree of the West Indies and Florida and Mexico; resembles tamarind and has long flat pods
• nitta tree — any of several Old World tropical trees of the genus Parkia having heads of red or yellow flowers followed by pods usually containing edible seeds and pulp
• manila tamarind, camachile, huamachil, wild tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce — common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum
• dita, dita bark, devil tree, Alstonia scholaris — evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally
• ivory tree, conessi, kurchi, kurchee, Holarrhena pubescens, Holarrhena antidysenterica — tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
• puka, Meryta sinclairii — small round-headed New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers
• cockspur, Pisonia aculeata — small spiny West Indian tree
• pandanus, screw pine — any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves
• lacebark, ribbonwood, houhere, Hoheria populnea — small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage
• ribbon tree, ribbonwood, Plagianthus regius, Plagianthus betulinus — deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton
• tulipwood tree — any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood
• red silk-cotton tree, simal, Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica — East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok
• Montezuma — evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae
• shaving-brush tree, Pseudobombax ellipticum — tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear
• quandong, quandong tree, Brisbane quandong, silver quandong tree, blue fig, Elaeocarpus grandis — Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
• Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silkwood, Muntingia calabura — a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
• breakax, breakaxe, Sloanea jamaicensis — West Indian timber tree having very hard wood
• bottletree — an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
• Chinese parasol tree, Chinese parasol, Japanese varnish tree, phoenix tree, Firmiana simplex — deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods
• mayeng, maple-leaved bayur, Pterospermum acerifolium — Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree
• silver tree, Tarrietia argyrodendron — Australian timber tree
• obeche, obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon — large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
• linden, linden tree, basswood, lime, lime tree — any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber
• silver tree, Leucadendron argenteum — small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage
• prickly ash, Orites excelsa — Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
• wheel tree, firewheel tree, Stenocarpus sinuatus — eastern Australian tree widely cultivated as a shade tree and for its glossy leaves and circular clusters of showy red to orange-scarlet flowers
• scrub beefwood, beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus — tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
• casuarina — any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood
• beech, beech tree — any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
• chestnut, chestnut tree — any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
• oak chestnut — a tree of the genus Castanopsis
• giant chinkapin, golden chinkapin, Chrysolepis chrysophylla, Castanea chrysophylla, Castanopsis chrysophylla — small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath; bears edible nuts
• tanbark oak, Lithocarpus densiflorus — evergreen oak of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark
• southern beech, evergreen beech — any of various beeches of the southern hemisphere having small usually evergreen leaves
• oak, oak tree — a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
• birch, birch tree — any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
• alder, alder tree — north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood
• hornbeam — any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus
• hop hornbeam — any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops
• fringe tree — any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus
• ash, ash tree — any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
• devilwood, American olive, Osmanthus americanus — small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
• dhawa, dhava — an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum
• button tree, button mangrove, Conocarpus erectus — evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
• white mangrove, Laguncularia racemosa — shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin
• bayberry, bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, wild cinnamon, Pimenta acris — West Indian tree; source of bay rum
• gum tree, gum — any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
• poon — any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
• calaba, Santa Maria tree, Calophyllum calaba — West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice
• Maria, Calophyllum longifolium — valuable timber tree of Panama
• laurelwood, lancewood tree, Calophyllum candidissimum — tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood
• clusia — an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers
• wild fig, Clusia flava — a West Indies clusia having fig-shaped fruit
• rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea — handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
• souari, souari nut, souari tree, Caryocar nuciferum — large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
• dipterocarp — tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae
• ketembilla, kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa — small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasking like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
• chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii — East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy
• Hydnocarpus laurifolia, Hydnocarpus wightiana — leathery-leaved tree of western India bearing round fruits with brown densely-hairy rind enclosing oily pulp that yields hydnocarpus oil
• idesia, Idesia polycarpa — deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries
• Australian nettle, Australian nettle tree — any of several tall Australian trees of the genus Laportea
• fig tree — any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature
• elm, elm tree — any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
• hackberry, nettle tree — any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits
• cabbage tree, grass tree, Cordyline australis — elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
• bonduc, bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella — tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries
• divi-divi, Caesalpinia coriaria — small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin
• brazilwood, peachwood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata — tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
• brazilian ironwood, Caesalpinia ferrea — thornless tree yielding heavy wood
• shingle tree, Acrocarpus fraxinifolius — East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used especially for tea boxes
• msasa, Brachystegia speciformis — small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers
• cassia — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
• locust tree, locust — any of various hard-wooded trees of the family Leguminosae
• Kentucky coffee tree, bonduc, chicot, Gymnocladus dioica — handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute
• palo verde, Parkinsonia florida, Cercidium floridum — densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium
• angelim, andelmin — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira
• camwood, African sandalwood, Baphia nitida — small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
• dhak, dak, palas, Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma — East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
• rosewood, rosewood tree — any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black
• sissoo, sissu, sisham, Dalbergia sissoo — East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties
• kingwood, kingwood tree, Dalbergia cearensis — Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood
• cocobolo, Dalbergia retusa — a valuable timber tree of tropical South America
• blackwood, blackwood tree — any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
• coral tree, erythrina — any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental
• gliricidia — any of several small deciduous trees valued for their dark wood and dense racemes of nectar-rich pink flowers grown in great profusion on arching branches; roots and bark and leaves and seeds are poisonous
• millettia — any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood
• tolu tree, tolu balsam tree, Myroxylon balsamum, Myroxylon toluiferum — medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork
• Peruvian balsam, Myroxylon pereirae, Myroxylon balsamum pereirae — tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam
• necklace tree — a tree of the genus Ormosia having seeds used as beads
• Jamaica dogwood, fish fuddle, Piscidia piscipula, Piscidia erythrina — small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons
• quira — any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber
• Indian beech, Pongamia glabra — evergreen Asiatic tree having glossy pinnate leaves and racemose creamy-white scented flowers; used as a shade tree
• bloodwood tree, kiaat, Pterocarpus angolensis — deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood
• padauk, padouk, amboyna, Pterocarpus indicus — tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
• Burma padauk, Burmese rosewood, Pterocarpus macrocarpus — tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany
• kino, Pterocarpus marsupium — East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
• red sandalwood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus — tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
• carib wood, Sabinea carinalis — small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges
• scarlet wisteria tree, vegetable hummingbird, Sesbania grandiflora — soft-wooded tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies
• Japanese pagoda tree, Chinese scholartree, Chinese scholar tree, Sophora japonica, Sophora sinensis — handsome round-headed deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan
• mescal bean, coral bean, frijolito, frijolillo, Sophora secundiflora — shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans
• kowhai, Sophora tetraptera — shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood
• tipu, tipu tree, yellow jacaranda, pride of Bolivia — semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental
• keurboom, Virgilia capensis, Virgilia oroboides — tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers
• keurboom, Virgilia divaricata — fast-growing round-headed tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental
• palm, palm tree — any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
• dagame, lemonwood tree, Calycophyllum candidissimum — source of a tough elastic wood
• coffee, coffee tree — any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
• cinchona, chinchona — any of several trees of the genus Cinchona
• opepe, Nauclea diderrichii, Sarcocephalus diderrichii — large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber; sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus
• lemonwood, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis — South African evergreen having hard tough wood
• wild medlar, wild medlar tree, medlar, Vangueria infausta — small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
• Spanish tamarind, Vangueria madagascariensis — shrubby tree of Madagascar occasionally cultivated for its edible apple-shaped fruit
• incense tree — any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense
• mahogany, mahogany tree — any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
• chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azederach, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach — tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
• neem, neem tree, nim tree, margosa, arishth, Azadirachta indica, Melia Azadirachta — large semi-evergreen tree of East India; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia
• satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia — East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood;
• silver ash — any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia
• lanseh tree, langsat, langset, Lansium domesticum — East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry
• African walnut, Lovoa klaineana — tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany
• turreae — any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers
• lepidobotrys — African tree often classified in other families; similar to the Costa Rican caracolito in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds
• caracolito, Ruptiliocarpon caracolito — large Costa Rican tree having light-colored wood suitable for cabinetry; similar to the African lepidobotrys in wood structure as well as in fruit and flowers and leaves and seeds; often classified in other families
• cork tree, Phellodendron amurense — deciduous tree of China and Manchuria having a turpentine aroma and handsome compound leaves turning yellow in autumn and deeply fissured corky bark
• trifoliate orange, trifoliata, wild orange, Poncirus trifoliata — small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
• prickly ash — any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
• bitterwood tree — any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
• pepper tree, Kirkia wilmsii — small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs
• willow, willow tree — any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
• sandalwood tree, true sandalwood, Santalum album — parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect-repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
• quandong, quandang, quandong tree, Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus — Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed
• soapberry, soapberry tree — a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin
• aroeira blanca, Schinus chichita — small resinous tree or shrub of Brazil
• pepper tree, molle, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle — small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits
• Brazilian pepper tree, Schinus terebinthifolius — small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen
• ebony, Diospyros ebenum — tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
• marblewood, Andaman marble, Diospyros kurzii — large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
• balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata — a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
• gutta-percha tree, Palaquium gutta — East Indian tree yielding gutta-percha
• gutta-percha tree — East Indian tree yielding gutta-percha
• marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota — tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
• Christmas bush, Christmas tree, Ceratopetalum gummiferum — Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
• plane tree, sycamore, platan — any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits
• calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete — tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
• princewood, Spanish elm, Cordia gerascanthus — tropical American timber tree
• white mangrove, Avicennia officinalis — a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific
• black mangrove, Aegiceras majus — an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida
• teak, Tectona grandis — tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
• treelet — a small tree
• arbor — tree (as opposed to shrub)
• bean tree — any of several trees having seedpods as fruits
• pollard — a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
• sapling — young tree
• shade tree — a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight
• gymnospermous tree — any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta
• angiospermous tree, flowering tree — any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
• fever tree — any of several trees having leaves or barks used to allay fever or thought to indicate regions free of fever
• bonsai — a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot
• nakedwood — any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood
• hazel, hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala — Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
• tree of knowledge — the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve

• woody plant, ligneous plant — a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems

• sapwood — newly formed outer wood lying between the cambium and the heartwood of a tree or woody plant; usually light colored; active in water conduction
• heartwood, duramen — the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood

• stump, tree stump — the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
• crown, capitulum, treetop — the upper branches and leaves of a tree
• limb, tree branch — any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
• trunk, tree trunk, bole — the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
• burl — a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree

• forest, wood, woods — the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area