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treetop

[ tree-top ]

noun

  1. the top tops or uppermost branches of a tree.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of treetop1

First recorded in 1520–30; tree + top 1

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Example Sentences

They explored the entire tree, climbing everywhere on the branches, then commenced racing and playing through the treetop.

The squirrel dropped his cone and scampered up into the treetop without a chirp.

In the gathering shadows a robin called plaintively from a treetop some distance away.

As the air was not stirring, I felt that he had not, and probably would not, scent me in the treetop perch.

Again, a number of these tissue bits came fluttering and whirling lightly down out of the fire-killed treetop.

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