TREETOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treetop mean? 

• TREETOP (noun)
  The noun TREETOP has 1 sense:

1. the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant

  Familiarity information: TREETOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREETOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

crown; treetop

Hypernyms ("treetop" is a kind of...):

top (the upper part of anything)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treetop"):

capitulum (an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree)

Holonyms ("treetop" is a part of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

 Context examples 

Tree sloths require specialized limb adaptations, reduced body mass, a slow metabolic rate and claws that act like fulcrums — hooks to accommodate the animals' need to hang onto and traverse treetops.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

So a lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, to let them go, chattering in mortal fear to the treetops.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)