drunken trees

noun

(A stand of) trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment, especially due to the melting of the permafrost ground they are on (thermokarst).

“Drunken trees leaning in random directions are often found in spruce forests where discontinuous permafrost has melted.”

Similar
drunken foresttilted trees
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noundrunken trees pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlybusiness(A stand of) trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment, especially due to the melting of the permafrost ground they are on (thermokarst).

    Drunken trees leaning in random directions are often found in spruce forests where discontinuous permafrost has melted.

    Synonyms: drunken forest, tilted trees

Synonyms & antonyms

noun(A stand of) trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment, especially due to the melting of the permafrost ground they are on (thermokarst).

Similar
drunken foresttilted trees

Origin

By analogy to the lean of a person who is drunk on alcohol.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

drunken trees. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunken%20trees

MLA

“drunken trees.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunken%20trees. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drunken trees,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunken%20trees.

Source: drunken trees on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.