christmas tree

4 definitions found

christmas tree - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.]
     An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a
     legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often
     celebrated by a particular church service, and also by
     special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Christmas box.
     (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas.
     (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and
         servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift.
  
     Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for,
        Christmas.
  
     Christmas day. Same as Christmas.
  
     Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas.
  
     Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern
        (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for
        decoration in winter.
  
     Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a
        poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern
        Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers
        midwinter.
  
     Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to
        be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated
        on Christmas eve.
        [1913 Webster]

christmas tree - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Christmas tree
      n 1: Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in
           Christmas decoration [syn: Christmas bush, Christmas tree
           , Ceratopetalum gummiferum]
      2: a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western
         Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic
         on roots of grasses [syn: flame tree, fire tree,
         Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda]
      3: tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a
         regular crown and grey bark [syn: European silver fir,
         Christmas tree, Abies alba]
      4: medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic
         crown and branches in tiers; leaves smell of orange when
         crushed [syn: amabilis fir, white fir, Pacific silver   fir
         , red silver fir, Christmas tree, Abies amabilis]
      5: an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration

christmas tree - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Christmas tree
  
     <hardware, jargon> A kind of EIA-232 line tester or
     breakout box featuring rows of blinking red and green LEDs
     suggestive of Christmas lights.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2006-09-20)
  

christmas tree - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Christmas tree
   n.
  
     A kind of RS-232 line tester or breakout box featuring rows of
     blinking red and green LEDs suggestive of Christmas lights.