wolf tree
wolf tree · wolf trees
A large forest tree whose size and spreading branches suggest that the environment…A large forest tree whose size and spreading branches suggest that the environment around it was formerly a clearing without other trees.
Meaning
1 sensesA large forest tree whose size and spreading branches suggest that the environment around it was formerly a clearing without other trees.
That wolf tree looks much older than the trees around it. I'd bet this was an empty field when it was young.
Origin
Perhaps because the trees were once lone wolves.Perhaps because the trees were once lone wolves.
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