trellis

English

A trellis for growing climbing plants

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English trelis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  treslis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French treille (“arbor”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Synonyms

• treillage

Translations

An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area

• Finnish: säleikkö (fi), ristikko (fi)
• French: treillage (fr) m
• German: Schmuckgitter n, Ziergitter n, Gatter (de) n
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• Italian: graticcio (it) m, inferriata (it) f, recinzione (it) f
• Maori: taiepa tūwatawata, arapaki
• Spanish: enrejado (es) m

An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants

• Danish: espalier n
• Finnish: säleikkö (fi), ristikko (fi)
• French: treille (fr) m, espalier (fr) m
• German: Spalier (de) n, Rankgerüst n, Klettergerüst n
• Hungarian: lugas (hu)
• Italian: pergolato (it) m, graticcio (it) m, pergola (it) f, traliccio (it) m
• Malay: jejala
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• Maori: titara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: espalier n

• Portuguese: treliça (pt) f
• Spanish: espaldar (es) m
• Tagalog: balag

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Translations to be checked

• Russian: решётка (ru) f (rešótka), шпале́ра (ru) f (špaléra)
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Verb

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

   to trellis vines

Anagrams

• Stiller, Tillers, rillets, stiller, tillers