English

Etymology

    From tree + -ify.

    Verb

    treeify (third-person singular simple present treeifies, present participle treeifying, simple past and past participle treeified)

    1. (transitive) To turn into a tree.
      • 1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics:
        Now, Daphne — before she was happily treeified
        Over all blossoms the lily had deified,
      • 1985: Lope de Vega (Spanish); Alan S. Trueblood & Edwin Honig (tr.), La Dorotea
        Pyramus is now no suicide,
        nor are all Daphnes treeified
        (Ya no se mata Píramo,
        Ni son las Dafnes árboles)
      • 1992: SIGLINK Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1
        For being able to show it in the figure, this acyclic graph has been "treeified".