Love-Spanish.com: Árbol

Sunday 21 April 2013

Árbol

Today's WOTD is: "árbol" = tree

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In Spanish, “árbol” is a masculine noun of Latin origin, which means tree. The noun “arbol” may be also used:

In shipping to refer to a mast in a sailing ship;
In mechanics to refer to a type of shaft;

A few commonly used expressions with the word “árbol” are:

Arbol arrancado (uprooted tree);
Arbol autóctono (native tree);
Arbol catalogado como singular (tree listed as unique);
Árbol del amor (tree of love/ Judas tree);
Arbol de canela (cinnamon tree);
Arbol de fuego (flamboyant tree);
Arbol de hoja caduca (deciduous tree);
Arbol de jerarquía (hierarchical/ organisation chart);
Árbol de Judas (Judas tree/ tree of love);
Árbol de la Ciencia del Bien y el Mal (tree of knowledge of good and evil);
Árbol de la Vida (tree of life);
Árbol de levas (camshaft);
Árbol de levas en cabeza (overhead camshaft -OHC);
Árbol de Navidad (Christmas tree);
Arbol de pan (breadfruit tree);
Arbol frutal (fruit tree);
Árbol genealógico (family tree);
Árbol mustio (withered tree);
Árbol seco (dead tree);

Some examples of the use of the word "árbol" are:

El fuerte viento ha arrancado varios árboles (the high winds have uprooted several trees);
El castaño se considera árbol autóctono de algunas regiones de España (the chestnut tree is considered native to some regions of Spain);
Existen varios ejemplares de árboles catalogados como singulares (there are several examples of trees listed as unique);
El ciclamor o árbol del amor es un árbol de hoja caduca (the tree of love is a deciduous tree);
La corteza del árbol de canela se usa como aromatizante (the bark of the cinnamon tree is used as an aromatic spice);
El árbol de fuego es una especie de árbol espectacular (the flamboyant tree is a spectacular tree species);
Ese es un árbol de jerarquía muy complejo (that is a very complex hierarchical/ organisation chart);
El ciclamor o árbol de Judas es un árbol de hoja caduca (the Judas tree is a deciduous tree);
La Biblia narra la historia del Árbol de la Ciencia del Bien y el Mal (the Bible tells the story of the tree of knowledge of good and evil);
La Biblia narra la historia del Árbol de la Vida (the Bible tells the story of the tree of life);
Este es un motor con árbol de levas en cabeza (this is an overhead camshaft -OHC engine);
El árbol de pan proviene de la región de las islas del Pacífico (the breadfruit tree originates from the Pacific islands region);
El manzano es un árbol frutal (the apple tree is fruit tree);
Hoy endía puedes crear tu propio árbol genealógico con la ayuda de la tecnología (nowadays you can create your very own family tree with the help of technology);
Ese árbol se ha quedado mustio (that tree has withered);
Ese árbol se ha secado (that tree has died);

Love-Spanish.com loves the word "árbol" in the YouTube clip: LOS ÁRBOLES MAS RAROS E INSÓLITOS DEL MUNDO

For more on the word "árbol", visit: Wordreference.com/ Árbol

*NB 'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “árbol” in the link to hear the word pronounced.

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