treeless

UK: /ˈtriːləs/

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

tree /tri/   n., v., treed, tree•ing. 
n. [countable]

1. Botany a plant having a permanently woody trunk and branches.
2. Plant Biology a shrub or plant, as the banana, that resembles a tree in form and size.
3. family tree.
4. Christmas tree.

v. [~ + object]

5. to drive (something pursued) into or up a tree:
   The dogs treed the fox.

Idioms

6. Idioms up a tree, in a difficult situation:
   Now we're up a tree; how can we get out of this mess?

tree•less, adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

tree  (trē), n., v., treed, tree•ing. 
n. 

1. a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
2. any of various shrubs, bushes, and plants, as the banana, resembling a tree in form and size.
3. something resembling a tree in shape, as a clothes tree or a crosstree.
4. [Math., Ling.] See tree diagram.
5. See family tree.
6. a pole, post, beam, bar, handle, or the like, as one forming part of some structure.
7. a shoetree or boot tree.
8. a saddletree.
9. a treelike group of crystals, as one forming in an electrolytic cell.
10. a gallows or gibbet.
11. the cross on which Christ was crucified.
12. Computing a data structure organized like a tree whose nodes store data elements and whose branches represent pointers to other nodes in the tree.
13. See Christmas tree.
14. up a tree, [Informal.] in a difficult or embarrassing situation;
    at a loss;
    stumped.

v.t. 

15. to drive into or up a tree, as a pursued animal or person.
16. [Informal.] to put into a difficult position.
17. to stretch or shape on a tree, as a boot.
18. to furnish (a structure) with a tree.

• bef. 900; Middle English; Old English trēo(w); cognate with Old Frisian, Old Norse trē, Old Saxon treo, Gothic triu; akin to Greek drŷs oak, Sanskrit, Avestan dru wood

tree ′like′, adj. 

Tree  (trē), n. 

Sir Herbert Beer•bohm  (bēr′bōm), (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager;
brother of Max Beerbohm.