Arbor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A shady resting place in a garden or park, often made of rustic work or latticework on which plants, such as climbing shrubs or vines, are grown.
  • n. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • n. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  • n. A spindle of a wheel, as in watches and clocks.
  • n. A tree, as opposed to a shrub.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
  • n. A grove of trees.
  • n. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • n. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  • n. A spindle of a wheel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.
  • n. A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.
  • n.
  • n. An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.
  • n. A mandrel in lathe turning.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Literally, a tree: used in this sense chiefly in botanical names.
  • n. In mech.: The main support or beam of a machine.
  • n. The principal spindle or axis of a wheel or pinion communicating motion to the other moving parts.
  • n. A grass-plot; a lawn; a green.
  • n. A garden of herbs or of flowering plants; a flower-bed or flower-garden.
  • n. 3. A collection of fruit-trees; an orchard.
  • n. A bower formed by trees, shrubs, or vines intertwined, or trained over a latticework, so as to make a leafy roof, and usually provided with seats; formerly, any shaded walk.
  • n. A platform of boards upon which sea-island cotton is dried to prevent heating and improve the luster.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. tree (as opposed to shrub)
  • n. a framework that supports climbing plants
  • n. any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tree    rotating shaft    shaft   
    Cross Reference
    arbor dianæ    arbor vitæ    expanding arbor    arbor saturni    arbor judæ   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bower    axle    pergola    pandal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Barber    arbour    barber    barbre    harbor    harbour   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    trellis    arbour    bower    pergola    portico    archway   
     
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