shade tree

1. 1.

   a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight

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Questions about shade tree

What does shade tree mean?

shade tree means "a tree planted or valued chiefly for its shade from sunlight".

Is shade tree a common word?

shade tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.