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Silver \Sil"ver\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.

  2. Resembling silver. Specifically:

    1. Bright; resplendent; white. ``Silver hair.''
      --Shak.

      Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast.
      --Milton.

    2. Precious; costly.

    3. Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear. ``Silver voices.''
      --Spenser.

    4. Sweet; gentle; peaceful. ``Silver slumber.'' --Spenser. American silver fir (Bot.), the balsam fir. See under Balsam. Silver age (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of the previous golden age, so-called. Silver-bell tree (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree ( Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree. Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant ( Anthyllis Barba-Jovis) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage. Silver chub (Zo["o]l.), the fallfish. Silver eel. (Zo["o]l.)

      1. The cutlass fish.

      2. A pale variety of the common eel. Silver fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree ( Abies pectinata) found in mountainous districts in the middle and south of Europe, where it often grows to the height of 100 or 150 feet. It yields Burgundy pitch and Strasburg turpentine. Silver foil, foil made of silver. Silver fox (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the common fox ( Vulpes vulpes, variety argenteus) found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. Its fur is nearly black, with silvery tips, and is highly valued. Called also black fox, and silver-gray fox. Silver gar. (Zo["o]l.) See Billfish

        1. .

          Silver grain (Bot.), the lines or narrow plates of cellular tissue which pass from the pith to the bark of an exogenous stem; the medullary rays. In the wood of the oak they are much larger than in that of the beech, maple, pine, cherry, etc.

          Silver grebe (Zo["o]l.), the red-throated diver. See Illust. under Diver.

          Silver hake (Zo["o]l.), the American whiting.

          Silver leaf, leaves or sheets made of silver beaten very thin.

          Silver lunge (Zo["o]l.), the namaycush.

          Silver moonfish.(Zo["o]l.) See Moonfish

        2. .

          Silver moth (Zo["o]l.), a lepisma.

          Silver owl (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl.

          Silver perch (Zo["o]l.), the mademoiselle, 2.

          Silver pheasant (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of beautiful crested and long-tailed Asiatic pheasants, of the genus Euplocamus. They have the tail and more or less of the upper parts silvery white. The most common species ( E. nychtemerus) is native of China.

          Silver plate, domestic utensils made of silver.

          Silver steel, an alloy of steel with a very small proportion of silver.

          Silver stick, a title given to the title field officer of the Life Guards when on duty at the palace. [Eng.]
          --Thackeray.

          Silver tree (Bot.), a South African tree ( Leucadendron argenteum) with long, silvery, silky leaves.

          Silver trout, (Zo["o]l.) See Trout.

          Silver wedding. See under Wedding.

          Silver whiting (Zo["o]l.), a marine sci[ae]noid food fish ( Menticirrus littoralis) native of the Southern United States; -- called also surf whiting.

          Silver witch (Zo["o]l.), A lepisma.

WordNet
silver tree
  1. n. small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage [syn: Leucadendron argenteum]

  2. Australian timber tree [syn: Tarrietia argyrodendron]

Wikipedia
Silver Tree

Silver Tree is a film producer, director and writer originally from Petaluma, California. She is most known for her independent film The Aviary. She wrote the story and produced the movie with her husband Abe Levy, freely based upon her own life as a flight attendant.

Silver Tree (disambiguation)

Silver Tree may refer to:

  • Silver Tree, film producer
  • The Silver Tree, an album by Lisa Gerrard
  • Leucadendron argenteum, a species of tree from South Africa
  • Silver Tree fountain, a famous construction of the Mongol Empire
  • a character in Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, a Scottish fairy tale
  • Telperion, or the Silver Tree, one of the Two Trees of Valinor in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional universe
  • Celeborn, a character in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings whose name means "silver tree"

Usage examples of "silver tree".

He looked across the meadow as if he was trying to remember the names of the things he was looking at: the flowers in the long grass, the ruins of the farmhouse, the haze of green buds that fogged the branches of the huge silver tree.

Nestled in the center of the fancy bow was a silver tree with a plump gilded bird.

Carefully, for this was her last chance, she built up layer by layer a silver tree.