English

Verb

treeify ‎(third-person singular simple present treeifies, present participle treeifying, simple past and past participle treeified)

1. (transitive) To turn into a tree.
   • 1848: James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics

     Now, Daphne — before she was happily treeified —

     Over all blossoms the lily had deified,

   • 1985: Lope de Vega (Spanish); Alan S. Trueblood & Edwin Honig (tr.), La Dorotea

     Pyramus is now no suicide,

     nor are all Daphnes treeified

     (Ya no se mata Píramo,

     Ni son las Dafnes árboles)

   • 1992: SIGLINK Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1

     For being able to show it in the figure, this acyclic graph has been "treeified".