espaliers
Meaning of espaliers
plural noun
a fruit tree or ornamental shrub whose branches are trained to grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice.
verb, 3rd person present- train (a tree or shrub) to grow flat against a wall.
fruit trees were espaliered some thirty feet apart
espaliered fruit trees
mid 17th century: from French, from Italian spalliera, from spalla ‘shoulder’, from Latin spatula (see spatula), in late Latin ‘shoulder blade’.
Information about espaliers
- The singular form of espaliers is: espalier.
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Hyphenation of espaliers
es-paliers
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- espaliers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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