Arborist Glossary

verb to interlace or interweave branches or vines to form a hedge or fence

• The gardener used a special technique to pleach the trees in the park.
• I saw the gardener pleach the bushes near the entrance.
• Let's pleach these shrubs to make them look neat.
• She had to pleach together different ideas to come up with a coherent argument.

noun a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

• The oak tree in the park is over a hundred years old.
• Let's go sit under that big tree over there.
• That tree is lit, dude!
• The family tree represents our ancestry and heritage.