Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A palm-lily: same as ti.
  • noun Same as tea-tree.

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Examples

  • We ate on the little balcony with ti-tree towering overhead and birds flitting here and there.

    What I cooked last night. 2007

  • Then I put the book down and saw a butterfly struggling in a spider web in a dark corner of tangled ti-tree and ivy.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • Then I put the book down and saw a butterfly struggling in a spider web in a dark corner of tangled ti-tree and ivy.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Later, a stroll back up to the house, retracing our steps under the ti-tree.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • Early in the morning, about seven o'clock when the air was still relatively cool, probably 26 degrees, we slipped out of the house and walked through the ti-tree lined avenues.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • Early in the morning, about seven o'clock when the air was still relatively cool, probably 26 degrees, we slipped out of the house and walked through the ti-tree lined avenues.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Later, a stroll back up to the house, retracing our steps under the ti-tree.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • The scent of ti-tree weighed heavily on the hot, dry air.

    What I cooked last night. 2005

  • The big pot went onto the stove just as the sun was dancing with the ti-tree, casting liquid gold mixed with long spindly shadows into the big west-facing kitchen window.

    What I cooked last night. 2005

  • Following last week's storms, I was a little anxious but there was no damage to the beach house, just a few ti-tree boughs blown down in the back yard.

    What I cooked last night. 2005

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