treed

1. 1
   adjective

   Planted with trees, or naturally covered by them.

   The developer preserved a treed buffer between the houses and the highway.

   Much of the property remains heavily treed and undisturbed.

   Similarwooded, forested, timbered

   Oppositetreeless

   Note

   A landscape word that takes degrees easily (more treed, most treed) and often appears in comparisons. Eugene is described as more treed than paved, and east central Alberta as more treed than when it was homesteaded. Grove and Rackham's The Nature of Mediterranean Europe (2003) says Crete is more wooded "and vastly more treed," which shows the difference: wooded suggests woodland, while treed simply counts trees, scattered or not.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of tree.

   The dogs treed the cougar against a steep ridge.

   Cornered and treed, the bobcat waited out the hunters.

   Note

   A regular past formed by adding only -d, because the stem already ends in e. The one spelling serves every sense of the verb: dogs that treed a raccoon, boots treed overnight on shoe trees, a frightened animal that simply treed. As a participle it often moves in front of a noun (a treed cat), and there it shares its spelling with the adjective for wooded land. Context tells chased from forested.

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