Meaning

4 senses
  1. A kind of tree, the arborvitae; an individual thereof.

  2. A metaphor used to describe the phylogenetic relationships between organisms, both living and extinct; a diagram that shows those relationships, with a treelike appearance.

  3. A term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.

    Lebensbaum

  4. (Judaism)The central mystical symbol used in the Kabbalah of esoteric Judaism, also known as the ten sephiroth.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. I've never seen so many trees in my life.

    ruНикогда в жизни не видел столько деревьев. — marafon

    deIch habe in meinem Leben noch nie so viele Bäume gesehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Donald Trump's antisemitic rhetoric about George Soros incited the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.

    deDonald Trumps antisemitische Rhetorik über George Soros hat das Blutbad in der Tree-of-Life-Synagoge angestachelt. — shekitten · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

2 languages
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Forms

plural: trees of life
Singulartree of life
Pluraltrees of life

irregular · Lesson

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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