trellis
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trellis
- /ˈtɹɛlɪs/
Where it comes from
From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
noun trellises
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants. It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian.
- 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.
Similar: treillage
verb trellises · trellising · trellised
- To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis. to trellis vines
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noun An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
| Español | enrejado, verja, rejado, encañado, encañizada |
|---|---|
| Français | treillage |
| Deutsch | Gatter, Schmuckgitter, Ziergitter |
| Italiano | graticcio, inferriata, recinzione |
noun An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
| Español | espaldar, espaldera, espalera, emparrado, pérgola, encañado |
|---|---|
| Português | treliça |
| Français | espalier, treille |
| Deutsch | Klettergerüst, Rankgerüst, Spalier |
| Italiano | graticcio, pergola, pergolato, traliccio |
| Русский | трелья́ж trelʹjáž |
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