| 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 |
| heaven | 1. The expanse of space surrounding the earth; especially, that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; often used in the plural in this sense. "I never saw the heavens so dim by day." (Shak) "When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven." (D. Webster) 2. The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death. "Unto the God of love, high heaven's King." (Spenser) "It is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell." (Shak) "New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven." (Keble) In this general sense heaven and its corresponding words in other languages have as various definite interpretations as there are phases of religious belief. 3. The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; used variously in this sense, as in No. 2. "Her prayers, whom Heaven delights to hear." (Shak) "The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven." (Milton) 4. Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight. "A heaven of beauty." . "The brightest heaven of invention." "O bed! bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head!" (Hood) Heaven is very often used, especially. With participles, in forming compound words, most of which need no special explanation; as, heaven-appeasing, heaven-aspiring, heaven-begot, heaven-born, heaven-bred, heaven-conducted, heaven-descended, heaven-directed, heaven-exalted, heaven-given, heaven-guided, heaven-inflicted, heaven-inspired, heaven-instructed, heaven-kissing, heaven-loved, heaven-moving, heaven-protected, heaven-taught, heaven-warring, and the like. Origin: OE. Heven, hefen, heofen, AS. Heofon; akin to OS. Hevan, LG. Heben, heven, Icel. Hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. Hemel, G. Himmel, Icel. Himmin, Goth. Himins; perh. Akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. Heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. Gahamn to put on, clothe one's self, G. Hemd shirt, and perh. E. Chemise. 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) |
| tree of heaven | deciduous rapidly growing tree of China with foliage like sumac and sweetish fetid flowers |
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