treeify

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verb

To turn into a tree.

OriginEnglish tree ← Middle English tre ← Old English trēow →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbtreeify (third-person singular simple present treeifies, present participle treeifying, simple past and past participle treeified)

present singular third person treeifies · participle present treeifying · participle past treeified · past treeified

  1. transitiveTo turn into a tree.

    1985: Lope de Vega (Spanish); Alan S. Trueblood & Edwin Honig (tr.), La Dorotea Pyramus is now no suicide, nor are all Daphnes treeified (Ya no se mata Píramo, Ni son las Dafnes árboles)

    2 more examples

    Now, Daphne — before she was happily treeified — Over all blossoms the lily had deified,

    1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics

    For being able to show it in the figure, this acyclic graph has been "treeified".

    1992: SIGLINK Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dóru
  2. Proto-Germanic*trewą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*treu
  4. Old Englishtrēow
  5. Middle Englishtre
  6. Englishtree
  7. Englishtreeify

From tree + -ify.

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Cite this entry
APA

treeify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treeify

MLA

“treeify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treeify. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “treeify,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/treeify.

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