trellis

English

A trellis for growing climbing plants

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtrɛlɪs/

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.

Synonyms

• treillage

Translations

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

• Finnish: ristikko (fi)

• French: treillage (fr) m

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

• Finnish: ristikko (fi)
• French: treille (fr) m, espalier (fr) m

• German: Spalier (de) n
• Hungarian: lugas (hu)

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• Russian: решётка (ru) (rešótka) f, шпалера (ru) (špaléra) f

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

Anagrams

• stiller
• tillers