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Oldest living thing in Middle Earth
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treebeard
Word definitions for treebeard in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Treebeard ( Sindarin : Fangorn ) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth fantasy writings . The eldest of the species of Ents , he is said to live in the ancient Forest of Fangorn and stands fourteen feet (4 m) in height. He is treelike ...
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n. A pendulous branching lichen, ''Usnea barbata'', resembling hair.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treebeard \Tree"beard`\, n. (Bot.) A pendulous branching lichen ( Usnea barbata ); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
Usage examples of treebeard.
Treebeard greeted Celeborn and Galadriel as a vanimar, vanimálion nostari, which greeting Tolkien translated as "o fair ones begetters of fair ones" (SD:73).
For a moment Treebeard stood under the rain of the falling spring, and took a deep breath.
All the same, I am not sure that Treebeard is right: I fancy he could do some mischief still in a small mean way.