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Christmas tree

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Christmas tree

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an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration
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n
medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed
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Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
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a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Christmas tree
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n an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration

Type of:
decoration, ornament, ornamentation
something used to beautify
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n medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed

Synonyms:
Abies amabilis, Pacific silver fir, amabilis fir, red silver fir, white fir
Type of:
silver fir
any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath

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

Synonyms:
Abies alba, European silver fir
Type of:
silver fir
any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath
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n Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration

Synonyms:
Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Christmas bush
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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n a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses

Synonyms:
Nuytsia floribunda, fire tree, flame tree
Type of:
parasitic plant
plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it
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