Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: trellis
IPA transcription: [tɹ'ɛləs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: trellis, treillage
    Meaning: latticework used to support climbing plants
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: trellis
    Meaning: train on a trellis, as of a vine
Usage examples
  • He saw his aged mother sitting under the honeysuckle trellis, book in hand, but thinking, he knew, of him.
  • The pattern was of little bunches of pink roses peeping out through trellis work, and it was these which she had just begun to cut out.
  • There certainly used to be, and they matched with the chintz cover of the window-seat, which was decorated with little bunches of pink roses peeping through trellis.
  • Perhaps a piece of the chintz, trellis and all, could be sewn over the belt, but she was determined to have single little bunches of roses peppered all over the collar and cuffs of the jacket, and, if possible, round the edge of the skirt.
  • I have them on an east fence, where they yield a large quantity of bloom for cutting; indeed, they have been so useful in this way that I have planted several more, but this time for training down to an oak trellis, like the one that supports the row of Bouquet d'Or, in order to bring the flowers within easier reach.