| HTP | House-Tree-Person [test]; hydroxytryptophan; hypothromboplastinemia |
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| TBT | tolbutamide test; tracheobronchial toilet; tracheobronchial tree |
| CART | Classification And Regression Tree |
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| MST | minimum spanning tree |
| quicken tree | <botany> The European rowan tree; called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. Origin: Probably from quick, and first applied to the aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. Quickenbaum, quizenbaum, quitschenbaum. Cf. Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| quicken | 1. To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the foetus in the womb. "The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies." (Ray) "And keener lightnings quicken in her eye." (Pope) "When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun." (Tennyson) 2. To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened. 1. To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite. "The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead." (Shak) "Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize." (South) 2. To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed. 3. To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced. Synonym: To revive, resuscitate, animate, reinvigorate, vivify, refresh, stimulate, sharpen, incite, hasten, accelerate, expedite, dispatch, speed. Origin: AS. Cwician. See Quick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| amber tree | A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bay tree | A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beam tree | <botany> A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. Origin: AS. Beam a tree. See: Beam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| beech tree | The beech. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bo tree | <botany> The peepul tree; especially, the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. "The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches." (Tennent) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bully tree | <botany> The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cabbage tree | The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| galapee tree | <botany> The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mahwa tree | <botany> An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. Butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gatten tree | <botany> A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). Origin: Cf. Prov. E. Gatter bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peepul tree | <botany> A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. Alternative forms: pippul tree, and pipal tree. Origin: Hind. Pipal, Skr. Pippala. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gourd tree | <botany> A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grass tree | <botany> An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rowan tree | <botany> A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. Sambucifolia). Origin: Cf. Sw. Ronn, Dan. Ronne, Icel. Reynir, and L. Ornus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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