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treetop
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
treetop
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cliff top/mountaintop/hilltop/treetop
▪ We could just see the white cliff tops in the distance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A cool breeze rustled the treetops.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A koala, who was the loser in a treetop fight, fell 10m and knocked himself out.
▪ Occasionally a treetop would flash be-tween us and them.
▪ Serving both to preserve and enhance an exceptional landscape, the treetop walk is an innovative and inspiring model of environmental responsiveness.
▪ The roding male circles his territory at treetop level, patrolling boundaries with deliberation at dusk and giving the ritual eerie call.
▪ The winds shifted and the fire, jumping from treetop to treetop, roared toward them.
▪ They come in at treetop level and drop these bombs.
▪ They come in at treetop level, and they also come in at great height.
Wiktionary
treetop

n. The crown or uppermost branches of a tree

WordNet
treetop

n. the upper branches and leaves of a tree [syn: crown, capitulum]

Wikipedia
Treetop

Treetop or Treetops may refer to:

  • The top of a tree
  • Treetops Hotel, Aberdare National Park, Kenya
  • Treetops (state park), former estate of torch singer and actress Libby Holman, now the Mianus River State Park, Connecticut, USA
  • Treetops, East Virginia, fictional setting of Shoe (comic strip)
  • "Treetop", nickname of Jack Straus (1930-1988), American poker player and winner of the 1982 World Series of Poker Main Event
  • "Treetop", nickname of Delbert Fowler (born 1958), American football player in the Canadian Football League

Usage examples of "treetop".

They used their sensing-organs simply as a tail, like any trivial wild creature, as though that organ had no powers at all except that of allowing them to swing through the treetops.

In the treetops there were the hundred birds who had come to eat birdseed from my garden.

I observe a brachiosaur, half-grown but already colossal, munching in the treetops.

They left one of the ships stopped and smoking, and cut eastward across the top of the flat Chiba Peninsula at treetop height to Naruto, which the day strikes seemed to have put entirely out of commission, Katori where there was no damage but no activity either, and finally Choshi, where they strafed some parked Jacks and Zekes and ran into light, but highly accurate, AA which holed the tail of one of the marauding Hellcats.

When chiffchaff and willow-wren first come they remain in the treetops, but in the summer descend into the lower bushes, and, like the nightingales, come out upon the sward by the wayside.

Two ravens skimmed deliberately along the distant treetops, floating into the open over the ninth lake and drifting down through the subsequent meadowland, heading into Deerhair Canyon, where the Milagro posse had retreated.

He went directly for the top, cutting corners on the zigzag, until he made it to a clearing where a round white gazebo on a single fluted column looked over the treetops like a dovecote on a pole.

UH-1 Fagin leaned way out of the Huey as it swept wide over the treetops to make another pass.

Colonel Juarez and his band halted breathless on a ridge, over which low clouds sailed like great gray ships, their keels cutting the treetops.

The choppers overflew the town repeatedly, descending to within twenty or thirty feet of the treetops.

The Dassault SF- 17 helicopter came in fast and low over the treetops of the Rambouillet Forest thirty miles southeast of Paris, the pilot, Pierre Gisgard, frantically searching for the field where he was supposed to land.

Tristan saw an expanse of green treetops, covering the entire valley floor except for the course of a bright and winding riverway that meandered through the forest.

Here she could be up among the treetops, where robins nested and squirrels ran from limb to high limb.

So while Taran scrabbled about gathering dry twigs and leaves and moss for a cook-fire, Koja returned yet again to the treetop and came back down with the tinderbox wherewith a thoughtful and foresighted supply officer had decided each scoutcraft cabin should be outfitted.

The sea fire intensified, flaring up, jumping from treetop to treetop, then blinked out, leaving darkness but for the glitter from the pool.