Trellis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A structure of open latticework, especially one used as a support for vines and other creeping plants.
  • n. An arbor or arch made of latticework.
  • v. To provide with a trellis, especially to train (a vine) on a trellis.
  • v. To make (something) in the form of a trellis.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area.
  • n. An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
  • n. A kind of graph used in communication theory and encryption.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A structure of light cross-bars, as of wood, nailed together where they cross one another, or of thin ribbons of metal, or of wire imitating this.
  • n. A shed, canopy, summer-house, or the like composed, or partly composed, of trellis-work. Such buildings are utilized especially for the support of growing vines.
  • n. In heraldry, same as treille or lattice, 3.
  • To furnish with trellises or trellis-work; especially, to support or train on trellises: as, to trellis a vine.
  • To form into trellis-work; interlace; interweave.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. latticework used to support climbing plants
  • v. train on a trellis, as of a vine
  • Verb Form
    trellised    trellises    trellising   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    train   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lattice    treillage   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bruxelles    Marcellus    fellas    jealous    overzealous    zealous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arbor    arbour    shrubbery    bower    pergola    palisade    slat    grille    grapery    tendril