English Explanatory Dictionary

trellis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
  2. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
  3. A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
verb
  1. To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹɛlɪs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trellis.wav

Word forms

trellis trellises trellising trellised

Etymology

From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.

Synonyms

treillage

Derived words

trellis drainage trellised trellis frame trellis modulation trellis quantization trellis rust trelliswork trellissing
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