tree cabbage (trekabaj)

See cabbage1, 1. tree-cactus (trē'kaktus), n. The saguaro, and ing in the midst of the garden of Eden, as a provision for tree-calf (trē'käf), n. See tree calf; under calf 1. the unending life of man so long as he remained in a state tree-cat (trē'kat), n. A palm-cat or paradoxure. of innocence, and hence as a symbol of the source of tree-celandine (tre's elan-din), n. See cel an heavenly immortality in a future existence. IMG:content-0799.png:[blocks in formation] (b) Same as arbor-vitæ, 1. (c) In an at., the arbor-vitæ of the cerebellum. - Tree of long life, Leptospermum ( Gla- phyria ) nitidum , a small tree in the high mountains of the Eastern Archipelago, whose leaves furnish Bencoolen or Malay tea: thus called by the natives, apparently in allusion to its hardine . - Tree of Porphyry, a logical diagram illustrating the relations of subordinate genera. - Tree of the gods. Same as tree of heaven . See See Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, according to the account in Genesis, a tree placed, with the tree of life, in the midst of the garden of Eden, and bearing the forbidden fruit the eating of which by Adam and Eve, un- der the persuasion of the serpent, destroyed their primal innocence and caused their expulsion from the earthly paradise. - Tree of the magicians, a solanaceous tree of Chili, Acnistus ( Lycioplesium ) pubiflorus . Treas . of Bot.- Tree of the universe. See Yggdrasil . -Trembling tree. See tremble . - Triple tree. See triple . - Tyburn tree, the gallows; a gibbet. - Up a tree, cut off from escape; obliged to surrender; cornered; entrapped; nonplu ed. [Colloq.] He was deploring the dreadful predicament in which he found himself, in a house full of old women. "Reg larly up a tree , by jingo!" exclaimed the modest boy, who could not face the gentlest of her sex. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xxxiv. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. Weeping tree, a tree of a weeping habit. See weeping . =Syn. 1. Shrub, Bush, etc. See vegetable. figure drawn in the outline form of a tree, to receive the record of the root or source, main stem, and branches of a family: specifically called a genealogical or family tree. into a tree, as a hunted animal fitted for climbing, such as animals of the cat kind, racoons, IMG:content-0800.png:[blocks in formation] ton-plant, Go ypium arboreum, becoming a shrub or low tree, widely cultivated in East Indian gardens, but scarcely grown for fiber. Beneath the white wool the seeds are covered with a dense green down.