noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈtɹɛlɪs/
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
verb
Meaning 4
To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
to trellis vines
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
latticework used to support climbing plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: treillage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lattice, latticework, fretwork
Narrower terms: espalier
6
verb
Meaning 6
train on a trellis, as of a vine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: train
History
Etymology
From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
решетка
(rešetka)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Finnish:
säleikkö
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Finnish:
ristikko
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
French:
treillage
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
German:
Gatter
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
German:
Schmuckgitter
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
German:
Ziergitter
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Italian:
graticcio
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Italian:
inferriata
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Italian:
recinzione
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Māori:
arapaki
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Māori:
taiepa tūwatawata
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Polish:
trejaż
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Polish:
treliaż
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Spanish:
enrejado
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Spanish:
verja
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Spanish:
rejado
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Spanish:
encañado
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Spanish:
encañizada
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used for partitioning a common area
Armenian:
սարբինա
(sarbina)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Armenian:
թառմա
(tʻaṙma)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Bulgarian:
асма
(asma)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Bulgarian:
рамка
(ramka)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Czech:
treláž
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Danish:
espalier
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Finnish:
ristikko
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Finnish:
säleikkö
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
French:
espalier
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
French:
treille
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Galician:
espaleira
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Galician:
espaller
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
German:
Klettergerüst
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
German:
Rankgerüst
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
German:
Spalier
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Hungarian:
lugas
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Italian:
graticcio
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Italian:
pergola
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Italian:
pergolato
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Italian:
traliccio
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Malay:
jejala
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Malay:
turus
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Malay:
junjung
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Māori:
titara
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Norwegian Bokmål:
espalier
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Persian:
آلاچیق
(âlâčiq)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Polish:
trejaż
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Polish:
treliaż
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Portuguese:
treliça
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Russian:
трелья́ж
(trelʹjáž)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
espaldar
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
espaldera
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
espalera
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
emparrado
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
pérgola
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
encañado
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
arriate
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Spanish:
encañizada
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Swedish:
spaljé
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Tagalog:
balag
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Ottoman Turkish:
چارطاق
(çardak)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Ottoman Turkish:
عریش
(ʼariş)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
Ukrainian:
трелья́ж
(trelʹjáž)
— An outdoor garden frame which can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants
