Nouns starting with T

• tree cotton — Noun – English ～ small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers
• tree celandine — Noun – English ～ small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers
• tree sloth — Noun – English ～ any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
• tree cotton — Noun – English ～ East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
• tree line — Noun – English ～ line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes
• tree creeper — Noun – English ～ any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
• tree toad — Noun – English ～ arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America
• tree farm — Noun – English ～ a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use
• tree fuchsia — Noun – English ～ erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand
• tree swallow — Noun – English ～ of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities
• tree-frog — Noun – English ～ any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes
• tree sparrow — Noun – English ～ Eurasian sparrow smaller than the house sparrow
• tree kangaroo — Noun – English ～ arboreal wallabies of New Guinea and northern Australia having hind and forelegs of similar length
• tree heath — Noun – English ～ evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
• tree surgery — Noun – English ～ treatment of damaged or decaying trees
• tree hugger — Noun – English ～ derogatory term for environmentalists who support restrictions on the logging industry and the preservation of forests
• tree lizard — Noun – English ～ a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico
• traveler's tree — Noun – English ～ giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers
• tree fern — Noun – English ～ any of numerous usually tropical ferns having a thick woody stem or caudex and a crown of large fronds; found especially in Australia and New Zealand; chiefly of the families Cyatheaceae and Marattiaceae but some from Polypodiaceae
• tree frog — Noun – English ～ any of various Old World arboreal frogs distinguished from true frogs by adhesive suckers on the toes

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