Trees Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.Archaic a. b. tr.v. treed, tree·ing, trees 1. Idiom: up a tree Informal tree′less adj.arboretumarboriculturearboriculturistn.citriculturecitriculturistn.decorticationdendrochronologydendrochronologistn.dendrochronological, adj.dendrographydendrographic, dendrographicaladj.dendrolatrydendrolatrousadj.dendrologydendrologistndendrologic, dendrologicaladj.forestation1.2.interlucationObsolete,nemophilynemophilistn.nemophilousadj.pomiculturereforestationsilviculture, sylviculturesilviculturist, sylviculturist, n.stumpage1.2.xylomaTrees See Also: LEAVES, NATUREApple-trees on which the apples looked like great shining soap bubbles —Hans Christian AndersenThe bark hung in ribbons from the trunks like the flayed skins of living creatures —R. Wright CampbellBeeches … their beautiful bare green trunks like limbs —Elizabeth BowenThe big pine was like greenish bronze against the October sky —Ellen Glasgow(In the moonlight) the big trees around us looked as

bare as gallows —John BraineThe birches bend like women —Caroline FinkelsteinThe birches stand out … like gay banners on white poles —Erich Maria RemarqueThe birch trees wavered their stark shadows across it [snow] like supplicating arms —Leo TolstoyBoughs … as rough and hornily buckled as the hands of old farmers —Margaret Laurence[Tree] branches … looked like the powerful contorted fingers of a gigantic hand —Sholem AschThe branches [of a weeping willow] were thin, like the bleached bones of a skeleton —Daphne du MaurierCedars … black and pointed on the sky like a paper silhouette —William FaulknerChestnut trees … their clusters of white blossoms like candelabras —Dorothea StrausCopses of hazel and alder stood like a low, petrified forest —H. E. BatesCypresses rose like cathedral spires —Jilly CooperElms rich like cucumbers —Joyce CaryEvergreens as big as tents —Julia O’FaolainEvergreens … out of place [amid the other trees that change their foliage in Autumn] … like poor relations at a

rich man’s feast —Jerome K. JeromeHuge hardwood trees draped with clusters of Spanish moss guarded the house from the afternoon heat like overdressed sentinels —Paul KuttnerMagnolia … its chalices of flowers like superb classical emblems —H. E. BatesMaples, burning like bonfires, pure yellow and pure red —Pamela Hansford JohnsonMy poplars are … like two old neighbors met to chat —Theodosia GarrisonThe oaks stood silent and tired, like old, worn-out seekers after pleasure, unable to keep up in this grimy, mechanized world of ours —Anthony PowellPalms … like Spanish exclamation points —Sue GraftonA pear tree glistened in bloom like a graceful drift of snow —George GarrettThe pear tree lets its petals drop like dandruff on a tabletop —W. D. SnodgrassPines … moaning like the sea —John Greenleaf WhittierPines tossing their green manes like frightened horses —George GarrettThe pines were packed like a quiver of arrows —John FarrisThe pine-trees roared like waves in their topmost branches, their stems creaked like the timber of ships —Katherine MansfieldA poplar covered with snow looked, in the bluish mist, like a giant in a winding sheet —Anton ChekhovPoplars like dark feathers against the green and gold sunset —Sharon Sheehe StarkThe poplars stood like tall guards, attentive, at attention —Delmore Schwartz

A week after the poet entered this in his diary as a fragment he incorporated it into a poem as follows: “The poplar stood like a rifle.”kidzone curtainsPoplars that rose above the mist were like a beach stirred by the wind —Gustave FlaubertRed maples and orange oaks, shaped like hands —Jonathan ValinThe redwoods let sink their branches like arms that try to hold buckets filling slowly with diamonds —James DickeyRows of bay trees like children’s green lollipops —Graham MastertonSaw the bare branches of a tree, like fine laceoil rubbed bronze curtain rods with glass finials, against the blackness [of garden] —Jean RhysThe scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry —Bliss CarmanThe shadows hung from the oak trees to the road like curtains —Eudora WeltyTall trees like towers —Carlos BakerA thick low-hanging branch sags like a wounded arm —John RechyThe tops of pines moonlit, like floating Christmas trees —Frank ConroyThe tree, in full bloomcurtain fabric outlet gloucestershire

, was like a huge mountain lit with candles —Alice WalkerTrees against walls, flattened like spies in old movies —Lisa RessThe trees and the shrubbery seemed well-groomed and sociable, like pleasant people —Willa CatherThe tree sat like a party umbrella (trunk sturdy, branches gently arching) —W. P. KinsellaTrees bent like arches —Graham SwiftThe trees cast still shadows like intricate black laces —H. G. WellsTrees darkening like clusters of frightened wrens —Philip LevineThe trees dimmed the whiteness [of snow] like a sparse spiro chocolate and green curtainscoat of hair —John CheeverThe trees drooped like old men with back problems —T. Coraghessan BoyleTrees grew close and spread out like bouquets —Stephen CraneThe trees have a look as if they bore sad names —Wallace StevensTrees … hunched against the dawn sky like shaggy dark animals, like buffalo —Alice MunroA tree slender as life, and as tall —Kenneth PatchenTrees … like burnt-out torches —Oscar WildeTrees … like fresh-painted green —Danny SantiagoTrees … like prophet’s fingers —Dylan ThomasTrees like tall ships —Sharon Sheehe StarkTrees [terry munro curtains

planted 40 years ago] … now stately, like patriarchs whose wisdom lives in their mere physical presence, after all sight and mind have been feebled —Paul HorganTrees spaced out in ordered formality … like a ballet of spinsters —W. Somerset MaughamTrees spread like green lather —F. Scott FitzgeraldTrees … spread their scant shade upon the ground like fine strands of hair —Yitzhak ShenharThe trees stood motionless and white like figures in a marble frieze —Helen Keller(In the park) the trees stood reticent curtains turramurraas old men —Helen HudsonTrees … tall and straight as the masts of ships —Donald HallTrees tall as mythical giants —David IgnatowTrees … vibrating headily like coins shaken in a dark money-box —Robert Culffswag curtains at jcpenney See Also: VIBRATIONSThe trees were beginning to put out buds like tiny wings —Helen HudsonThe trees were plucked like iron bars —Wallace StevensTrees whose branches spread like hugging, possessive arms —John RechyTrees with branches like the groping fingers of men long dead —Loren D. EstlemanTrunks like thick skirts hanging in folds —Paul TherouxTwigs grasped for the sky like frayed electrical wires —Z. Vance WilsonWillow trees … their trailing leaves hung like waterfalls in the morning air —Eudora Welty