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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trellis
noun
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▪ A robin came to perch on the trellis, only an arm's distance away.
▪ A simple trellis entwined with flowers on a platform at the end of the dining hall was Illyria.
▪ Espalier: A shrub or fruit tree trained to grow flat against a wall or trellis.
▪ If lacking, these aspects can easily be created using fence panels, trellis or planting.
▪ Never put a trellis behind it to support its growth.
▪ The planking and the underlying ribs thus formed a rectangular trellis with no diagonal bracing or shear members.
▪ They walked together through the trellis arch into the back garden.
▪ You may be able to accommodate this bending by tying in to a longish pergola or trellis on a wall or fence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trellis

Trellis \Trel"lis\, n. [OE. relis, F. treillis, fr. treille vine arbor, fr. L. tricla, triclea, triclia, a bower, arbor, summer house.] A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trellis

late 14c., "lattice, grating," from Old French trelis, trellis "trellis, fence," originally "sackcloth," from Vulgar Latin *trilicius, from Latin trilicis, genitive of trilix "having three threads, triple-twilled," from tri- (see tri-) + licium "thread."\n

\nSense extended in Old French to things "woven" of iron, etc., which brought on influence of Old French treille "vine trellis," perhaps from Latin trichila "bower, arbor," which is apparently from Latin triclinium "couch extending round three sides of a table" (for reclining on at meals). Meaning "lattice used to support growing vines" is from 1510s. As a verb, c.1400. Related: Trellised.

Wiktionary
trellis

n. 1 An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common are

  1. 2 An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants. 3 (context computing theory English) A kind of graph used in communication theory and encryption. v

  2. (context transitive English) To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.

WordNet
trellis

  1. n. latticework used to support climbing plants [syn: treillage]

  2. v. train on a trellis, as of a vine

Wikipedia
Trellis

Trellis may refer to:

Trellis (coding theory)
Trellis (architecture)

A trellis (treillage) is an architectural structure, usually made from an open framework or lattice of interwoven or intersecting pieces of wood, bamboo or metal that is normally made to support and display climbing plants, especially shrubs. There are many types of trellis for different places and for different plants, from agricultural types, especially in viticulture, which are covered at vine training systems, to garden uses for climbers such as grapevines, clematis, ivy, and climbing roses or other support based growing plants. The rose trellis is especially common in Europe and other rose-growing areas, and many climbing rose varieties require a trellis to reach their potential as garden plants. Some plants will climb and wrap themselves round a trellis without much artificial help being needed while others need training by passing the growing shoots through the trellis and/or tying them to the framework.

Trellis can also be referred to as panels, usually made from interwoven wood pieces, attached to fences or the roof or exterior walls of a building. A pergola usually refers to trellis-work that is laid horizontally above head height to provide a partial "roof" in a garden (pergolas are also used in agricultural settings).

Trellis (graph)

A trellis is a graph whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices (time), and with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time. The earliest and latest times in the trellis have only one node.

Trellises are used in encoders and decoders for communication theory and encryption. They are also the central datatype used in Baum–Welch algorithm for Hidden Markov Models.

Usage examples of "trellis".

They had it all to themselves, and it was filled with things that Bernard liked--inequalities of level, with mossy steps connecting them, rose-trees trained upon old brick walls, horizontal trellises arranged like Italian pergolas, and here and there a towering poplar, looking as if it had survived from some more primitive stage of culture, with its stiff boughs motionless and its leaves forever trembling.

I have also tried it in pots, grown and bloomed under the shade of a trellised peach tree, in a small house, without artificial heat, where it not only did well, but vied with the violets for effectiveness.

And Ralph sat down on the trellised portico, stretching out his elegant rosetted shoes, and laughing.

Round each was a wide verandah, partly trellised with vines, and festooned by bougainvillea, snowy stephanotis, and the orange, bell-shaped flowers of the begonia.

When it came right up to the trellis, everybody sat as if frozen at their tables, chunks of sterlet on their forks, eyes popping.

The vines of the clematis tangutica climbed the trellis and the foxglove and aconitum looked hearty and healthy.

The Biltmore Grill boasted a large outdoor patio, complete with paddle fans and a trellised ceiling climbing with wisteria.

I gave the cart in charge of a blackboy who was lounging about the slip--rails, and made my way to the granadilla trellis, where the lovers often spont their early morning hours.

Number twelve was a semi-detached cottage with bullnosed corrugated-iron roof and a Victorian fretwork castiron trellis beneath the eaves.

Number twelve was a semidetached cottage with bullnosed corrugated-iron roof and a Victorian fretwork castiron trellis beneath the eaves.

The backyard, as concise as the house, is enclosed by a scrim of privet hedge and monopolized by flowerbeds: peonies in late, tempestuous bloom, trellised veils of clematis and rugosa roses, gladiolas hinting at the colors sheathed in their spearlike buds.

Each had the same granary built high on pillars, the same conical hayrack, the same trellis overgrown with green grapes, the same collection of gnarled trees heavy with fruit.

Harper started this gorgeous purple clematis on a copper trellis and put in a trio of oakleaf hydrangeas.

Elsewhere, the engine plumes, creeping up the maglines like vines up a trellis, stripped and ionized the oxygen and nitrogen, and flowers bloomed in the somber colors ghosts were said to favor.

He carried her the rest of the way, despite his bad leg, as easily as if she were a child, under a trellis bowed with a profusion of Silver Moon roses, filling the air with their perfume, down the narrow flight of slate steps to his basement.