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shade tree

noun

  1. a tree planted or valued for its shade.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shade tree1

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

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Example Sentences

He was standing under a shade tree—“for survival,” he explained.

The Republicans may have mistaken their adversary for just another Democrat sleeping under a shade tree and looking like a mark.

But, to return to our tree, I would like to see its merits as an ornamental and shade tree duly recognized.

It is, therefore, quite extensively planted as a shade tree.

When you cut a melon, your friends will come with eager mouths and sit under your shade tree and help you eat it.

We went to Stratford: walked in the Garden, sat about two hours under a butifull shade tree, and eat as many figs as we could.

Walnut has been observed coming up in a woodlot, and the only possible source is a shade tree half a mile away.

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