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| − | [[Image:Tree.jpg|thumb|250px]]A '''tree''' is a tall [[plant]], usually with a trunk, branches, and [[leaf|leaves]]. | + | [[Image:Tree.jpg|thumb|250px]]A '''tree''' is a tall [[plant]], usually with roots, a trunk, branches, and [[leaf|leaves]]. Trees produce oxygen and absorb [[carbon dioxide]] from the air. Also, certain types of trees may bear fruit, such as [[apple]]s. |
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| − | Trees are an important part of the [[Bible]]. They were created on the Third Day of [[Creation]].<ref>Genesis 1:11-12</ref> It was from the [[Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil]] that [[Eve]] brought [[evil]] into the world.<ref>Genesis 3:1-7</ref> Jotham used a parable about trees to criticize his brother Abimelech.<ref>Judges 9</ref> And it was on the [[wood]] of a tree that our [[Savior]], [[Jesus Christ]], was [[crucifixion|crucified]]. | + | Trees are an important part of the [[Bible]]. They were created, along with all other plants, on the Third Day of [[Creation]].<ref>Genesis 1:11-12</ref> It was from the [[Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil]] that [[Eve]] brought [[evil]] into the world.<ref>Genesis 3:1-7</ref> Jotham used a parable about trees to criticize his brother Abimelech.<ref>Judges 9</ref> And it was on the [[wood]] of a tree that our [[Savior]], [[Jesus Christ]], was [[crucifixion|crucified]]. In fact, a commonly used name for Jesus Christ is "Tree of Life." |
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| − | In [[mathematics]], a '''tree''' is also a [[graph]] with no cycles, so called because they often resemble actual live trees.
| + | Trees are a flashpoint for [[environmentalist]]s, who are nicknamed "tree-huggers". Yet environmentalists in 2023 are suing the [[Biden Administration]] to stop it from planting more trees. |
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| − | [[Logging]] is the harvesting of trees for commercial or forest management purposes. | + | In the 1970s plastic shopping bags were introduced in grocery stores and retail sales outlets to "Save the Trees"; during the [[covid]] [[lockdown]] hoax of 2020 plastic shopping bags were alleged by [[Scientism|"the science"]] to facilitate the spread of [[coronavirus]] and were banned by local leftist municipalities, who forced a return to murdering trees for paper shopping bags. |
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| | + | The harvesting of trees for commercial or forest management purposes is [[logging]]. |
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| | + | ==Other uses of the term== |
| | + | In [[mathematics]], a "tree" is a [[graph]] with no cycles, so called because these graphs often resemble natural trees. Trees can be used to perform functions as computers use binary trees in order to perform operations. |
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| | + | A [[Tree (data structure)|tree]] is also an important data structure in [[computer science]]. |
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| | + | == See also == |
| | + | *[[Baobab]] |
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