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dead trees

dead trees is the plural of dead tree.

Meaning of dead tree

Noun

dead tree (plural dead trees)

  1. A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper.
    • You can't grep dead trees.
  2. A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)

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Questions about dead trees

What is dead trees the plural of?
Dead trees is the plural of dead tree.

Words near dead trees in the dictionary

  1. dead to rights
  2. dead to the world
  3. dead tree
  4. dead tree edition
  5. dead tree editions
  6. dead trees
  7. dead wagon
  8. dead wagons
  9. dead wall
  10. dead walls
  11. dead water

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead trees (page history and authors); dead tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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