CHRISTMAS TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christmas tree mean? 

• CHRISTMAS TREE (noun)
  The noun CHRISTMAS TREE has 5 senses:

1. Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration

2. a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses

3. tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark

4. medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed

5. an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration

  Familiarity information: CHRISTMAS TREE used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRISTMAS TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ceratopetalum gummiferum; Christmas bush; Christmas tree

Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("Christmas tree" is a member of...):

Ceratopetalum; genus Ceratopetalum (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Cunoniaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christmas tree; fire tree; flame tree; Nuytsia floribunda

Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):

parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)

Holonyms ("Christmas tree" is a member of...):

genus Nuytsia; Nuytsia (one species)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abies alba; Christmas tree; European silver fir

Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):

silver fir (any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Abies amabilis; amabilis fir; Christmas tree; Pacific silver fir; red silver fir; white fir

Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):

silver fir (any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

 Context examples 

At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)