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Definition of Christmas tree
1. Noun. Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration.
Group relationships: Ceratopetalum, Genus Ceratopetalum
Generic synonyms: Tree
2. Noun. A terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses.
Group relationships: Genus Nuytsia, Nuytsia
Generic synonyms: Parasitic Plant
3. Noun. Tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark.
4. Noun. Medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when crushed.
Generic synonyms: Silver Fir
5. Noun. An ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration.
Definition of Christmas tree
1. Noun. A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip. ¹
2. Noun. A pole with lights, similar to a traffic signal, used for signalling the start of an automobile race. ¹
3. Noun. The collection of valves sometimes found at the top of a working oil well. ¹
4. Noun. (bodybuilding) A pattern of muscles visible in the lower back, shaped to look like a conifer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Tree
Literary usage of Christmas tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"Wherever you trace the origin of the Christmas-tree outside Germany, ...
Nowadays the custom of having a Christmas-tree is very common all over England. ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"ROUND ABOUT THE Christmas tree THE kindly Christmas tree, from which I trust
every gentle reader has pulled a bonbon or two, is yet all aflame whilst I am ..."
3. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"ROUND ABOUT THE Christmas tree. THE kindly Christmas tree, from which I trust
every gentle reader has pulled a bonbon or two, is yet all aflame whilst I am ..."
4. The Story of Santa Klaus: Told for Children of All Ages from Six to Sixty by William Shepard Walsh (1909)
"How, where and by whom was the Christmas tree, as we now know it, brought into
the Christmas festivities and associated with the Christ-child and Saint ..."
5. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"The first description of a Christmas-tree in modern literature is to be found
... In 1860 the German residents of Paris could procure a Christmas-tree only ..."
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