Tree

Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial woody plant with a single main trunk taller than about 2 metres, with xylem tissue in the trunk and branches that continues to enlarge during the life of the plant by the process of secondary growth.

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Famous quotes containing the word tree:

    “Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
    Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
    The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
    But green the golden tree of life.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “A pinecone does not fall far from the tree trunk.”
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)