shade tree

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noun

a tree planted or valued for its shade.

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Origin of shade tree

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Words nearby shade tree

shaded, shade deck, shade-grown, shades, shades of, shade tree, shadfly, shading, shadkhan, shadoof, shadow

How to use shade tree in a sentence

Around him, several-hundred families were set up under canopies across a clearing and up a rocky incline under shade trees, all with a view of the shimmering 216-acre lake surrounded by green hills.
Sun, Sand, and Spaghetti|Mike Diago|July 22, 2021|Eater
In larger gardens, it can be used as a specimen or as an understory tree beneath hardwoods, providing a valuable layer between low growing plants and the shade trees.
The gardener’s guide to redbuds|Adrian Higgins|March 4, 2021|Washington Post
He was standing under a shade tree—“for survival,” he explained.
Demonstrators Pro and Con Greet Supreme Court Health Care Decision|Lloyd Grove|June 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Republicans may have mistaken their adversary for just another Democrat sleeping under a shade tree and looking like a mark.
Obama Buries ACORN|Stanley Crouch|October 21, 2008|DAILY BEAST

But, to return to our tree, I would like to see its merits as an ornamental and shade tree duly recognized.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885|Various
It is, therefore, quite extensively planted as a shade tree.
Forest Trees of Illinois|Fuller George D.
When you cut a melon, your friends will come with eager mouths and sit under your shade tree and help you eat it.
Dollars and Sense|Col. Wm. C. Hunter
We went to Stratford: walked in the Garden, sat about two hours under a butifull shade tree, and eat as many figs as we could.
Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782|Lucinda Lee Orr
Walnut has been observed coming up in a woodlot, and the only possible source is a shade tree half a mile away.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting|Northern Nut Growers Association