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treetop

/tree-top/US // ˈtriˌtɒp //

树梢,树顶,树梢上,树冠

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the top or uppermost branches of a tree.

Examples

  • Nicknamed the “real-life Lorax” by National Geographic and “Einstein of the treetops” by The Wall Street Journal, Lowman pioneered the science of canopy ecology.

  • The treetops lit up and little by little the immense forest in front of me reappeared.

  • As a deep blue dusk started nesting in the treetops, their upper boughs started to shimmer and hiss with rising wind.

  • A stressful life in the treetops — far from the soil — may have helped the ferns’ evolve eusocial traits, Burns says.

  • A mass of strange ferns grips a trunk high among the treetops.

  • They explored the entire tree, climbing everywhere on the branches, then commenced racing and playing through the treetop.

  • The squirrel dropped his cone and scampered up into the treetop without a chirp.

  • In the gathering shadows a robin called plaintively from a treetop some distance away.

  • As the air was not stirring, I felt that he had not, and probably would not, scent me in the treetop perch.

  • Again, a number of these tissue bits came fluttering and whirling lightly down out of the fire-killed treetop.