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Plural of trellis

regular plural

The plural of trellis is trellises.

Forms of trellis

Singulartrellis /ˈtɹɛlɪs/
Pluraltrellises
Countablecountable

Trellises in a sentence

  • Training systems for vertical trellises are categorized as having either divided or nondivided canopies.1995, Tony K. Wolf, Edward Barclay Poling, Thomas W. Knecht, The Mid-Atlantic Winegrape Grower's Guide, page 63. From the entry nondivided

Meaning of trellis

  1. noun An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
  2. noun An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
  3. noun A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.

Full definition of trellis

Questions about the plural of trellis

What is the plural of trellis?
The plural of trellis is trellises.
Is trellis countable?
Trellis is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trellis (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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