treeify
To turn into a tree.
Verb
- To turn into a tree.
- Now, Daphne — before she was happily treeified — Over all blossoms the lily had deified, - 1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics:
- 1985: Lope de Vega (Spanish); Alan S. Trueblood & Edwin Honig (tr.), La Dorotea Pyramus is now no suicide, nor are all Daphnes treeified (Ya no se mata Píramo, Ni son las Dafnes árboles)
- For being able to show it in the figure, this acyclic graph has been "treeified". - 1992: SIGLINK Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English treeify From tree + -ify.