Meaning

3 senses
  1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.

    Gatter, Schmuckgitter, Ziergitter

  2. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.

    Klettergerüst, Rankgerüst, Spalier

    трелья́жtrelʹjáž

    трелья́жtrelʹjáž

    latticework used to support climbing plants

  3. A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. The trellis was covered with honeysuckle.

    deDas Spalier war mit Heckenkirschen bewachsen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Some ivy is growing on the trellis.

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  3. He planted pole beans on the trellis.

  4. The vine curled around the trellis, growing ever higher.

  5. When the squash is pulled out, the trellis comes with it.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants:
Русский
By meaning 1
An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area:
An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants:

Origin

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”),

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.

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Forms

plural: trellises
Singulartrellis
Pluraltrellises

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • latticework used to support climbing plants:treillage

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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