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Christmas tree definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration [syn: Christmas bush, Christmas tree, Ceratopetalum gummiferum]
2: a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses [syn: flame tree, fire tree, Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda]
3: tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark [syn: European silver fir, Christmas tree, Abies alba]
4: medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed [syn: amabilis fir, white fir, Pacific silver fir, red silver fir, Christmas tree, Abies amabilis]
5: an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1835 1. a usually evergreen tree decorated at Christmas 2. an oil-well control device consisting of an assembly of fittings placed at the top of the well

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Christmas Christ"mas, n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. Christmas day. Same as Christmas. Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Christmas trees) A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments. N-COUNT