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:

    “As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A tree the span of two arms starts from a tiny seedling.”
    —Chinese proverb.

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