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treey en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɹiːi/

Etymology

From tree + -y.

Meanings

  1. Having many trees.
    • Notices darker figure move against dark treey background. 1983, Robert Kelly, Under Woods, →ISBN, page 25:
    • But this night was a treey desolation, rain-pelted […]. 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
    • This is a tree-y course, like New Zealand, really good, good greens, well bunkered, a trifle on the short side, but full of interest. 1912, P. A. Vaile, Horance G. Hutchinson, Henry Leach, chapter 35, in Essays on Golf:
  2. Resembling a tree.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
treeiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
treeier Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

treeiness