Collocations for "tree"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "tree" in context.
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tree
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [pine, lemon, palm, willow] tree
- [jungle, forest, tropical] trees
- a (real, fake) Christmas tree
- [put, place] the presents under the (Christmas) tree
- a [tall, short, stunted, uprooted, felled] tree
- [cut down, fell, uproot, plant] a tree
- [save, protect, preserve] the trees
- [likes, good at] climbing trees
- [picnic, nap, sleep, doze] under the tree
- [lean, rest, lie] against the tree
- you're barking up the wrong tree!
- the [branches, log, trunk] of a tree
- a [family, genealogical] tree
- [trace, make, draw] your [family] tree
- a [tech, technology] tree
- the Tree of Knowledge
- [build, sleep in] a tree house
- [is, works as] a tree surgeon
- a tree [decision, diagram, house]
- tea tree oil
- tree-dwelling [animal, species, marsupial]
- a tree-dweller
- (a bunch of) tree huggers
'tree' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Christmas
- acorn
- age
- almond
- apple
- apricot
- around
- asleep
- avenue
- avocado
- badly
- banana
- bark
- barren
- base
- bat
- beak
- bear
- beech
- below
- beneath
- berry
- big
- birch
- bird
- blackberry
- bladder
- blight
- blossom
- blow
- blown
- body
- bolt
- bright
- budding
- burrow
- cat
- cedar
- chain
- charm
- chase
- cherry
- chestnut
- chop
- chopper
- climb
- coconut
- come
- crap
- cricket