SHADE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shade tree mean? 

• SHADE TREE (noun)
  The noun SHADE TREE has 1 sense:

1. a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight

  Familiarity information: SHADE TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHADE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shade 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)