Tree vs. Flower — What's the Difference?

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only wood plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs.

A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

The reproductive structure of angiosperms, characteristically having either specialized male or female organs or both male and female organs, such as stamens and a pistil, enclosed in an outer envelope of petals and sepals.

A wooden structure or part of a structure.

Such a structure having showy or colorful parts; a blossom.

A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

A flower head.

Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

A plant that is cultivated or appreciated for its blossoms.

(of an area) planted with trees

The condition or a time of having developed flowers

A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.

The period of highest development or greatest vigor. ]

An herbaceous plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.

A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.

Something that resembles a tree in form, especially a diagram or arrangement that has branches showing relationships of hierarchy or lineage.

(botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.

(Computers) A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.

A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.

A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.

A cut flower; the stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.

A saddletree.

(usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.

A gallows.

The vulva, especially the labia majora.

The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

The best examples or representatives of a group.

To force up a tree

The best state of things; the prime.

(Informal) To force into a difficult position; corner

(obsolete) Flour.

To supply or cover with trees

A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.

A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

(printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

Menstrual discharges.

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(rare) Something that flows, such as a river.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.

To put forth blooms.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

To decorate with pictures of flowers.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

To reach a state of full development or achievement.

Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Marijuana.

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.

Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

(transitive) To place in a tree.

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

(transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Menstrual discharges.

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

To come into the finest or fairest condition.

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Wood; timber.

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

A figure that branches from a single root;

Produce or yield flowers;

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Chase a bear up a tree with dogs and kill it