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CHRISTMAS TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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; amabilis fir; Christmas tree; Pacific silver fir; red silver fir; white fir
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):
silver fir (any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark
Synonyms:
Abies alba; Christmas tree; European silver fir
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Christmas tree" is a kind of...):
silver fir (any of various true firs having leaves white or silvery white beneath)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses
Synonyms:
Christmas tree; fire tree; flame tree; Nuytsia floribunda
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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 5
Meaning:
Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration
Synonyms:
Ceratopetalum gummiferum; Christmas bush; Christmas tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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)
