trellis

English
A trellis for growing climbing plants

Etymology

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛlɪs/

Noun

trellis (plural trellises)

  1. An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area.
  2. An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
  3. (computing theory) 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.

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Verb

trellis (third-person singular simple present trellises, present participle trellising, simple past and past participle trellised)

  1. (transitive) To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
    to trellis vines

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