Christmas tree

noun

an evergreen tree decorated at Christmas with ornaments and lights.
a control board or panel containing a variety of colored lights for indicating the status of various functions, elements, components, etc.
an elaborate arrangement of pipes, valves, etc., as for controlling the flow of oil or gas.

Christmas tree

an evergreen tree or an imitation of one, decorated as part of Christmas celebrations
Also calledChristmas bush any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
See pohutukawa
another name for pohutukawa

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90

Santa sits in front of a bauble-decorated Christmas tree, frosted blue windows, a large wooden nutcracker and flickering candles.

From Time

If you Google “Muslim Christmas tree star” you will see a list of right-wing websites wetting their pants over this.

The picture shows a lighted GE Snowball Christmas tree light.

Possible song titles included “Heart of Coal,” “Alone Under the Mistletoe,” and “Two Jews and a Christmas Tree.”

Mohamed Mohamud tried to blow up a Portland Christmas-tree lighting in 2010.

From gasoline-fueled mishaps to the Muppets shocking experiment, watch our favorite Christmas-tree-fire PSAs.

Apparently he had heard of the Christmas Tree before, for he made no comment.

The curtain had been drawn, and a great Christmas-tree almost blinded her with its splendor.

Having no grandchildren to get up a Christmas-tree for, we had nothing to divert our attention from our headaches.

Some of them she strung for the Christmas Tree and others she used for filling little net bags.

Nothing left but picture of one small blue soldier looking up through blazon flames of Christmas-tree to shining thing above.

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