treetop

Definitions

Examples

• Nicknamed the “real-life Lorax” by National Geographic and “Einstein of the treetops” by The Wall Street Journal, Lowman pioneered the science of canopy ecology.

• The treetops lit up and little by little the immense forest in front of me reappeared.

• As a deep blue dusk started nesting in the treetops, their upper boughs started to shimmer and hiss with rising wind.

• A stressful life in the treetops — far from the soil — may have helped the ferns’ evolve eusocial traits, Burns says.

• A mass of strange ferns grips a trunk high among the treetops.

• They explored the entire tree, climbing everywhere on the branches, then commenced racing and playing through the treetop.

• The squirrel dropped his cone and scampered up into the treetop without a chirp.

• In the gathering shadows a robin called plaintively from a treetop some distance away.

• As the air was not stirring, I felt that he had not, and probably would not, scent me in the treetop perch.

• Again, a number of these tissue bits came fluttering and whirling lightly down out of the fire-killed treetop.