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  • noun The state or essence of being a tree.

Etymologies

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tree +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • Other times, and perhaps when he's being more careful or at least more official, he suggests that what we know of the external world is much sparser, more like My current ideas of treehood and green are caused by something external to me.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • Seeing the curé, the pair stopped under an immense olive tree, a tree so twisted, so contorted that it seemed to have settled down to treehood only after the wild whirl of a mænad dance.

    The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

  • It was trying to reclaim its "treehood, 'as it reached toward the sun from all around its base, as it continued to make leaves.

    The Persistence of Life 2009

  • Compare them and deduce treehood by subtracting the anomalous from the universal. "

    Stories from the Old Attic Robert A. Harris

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