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Meaning of trellis

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

trellis

Pronunciation:/ˈtɹɛlɪs/

noun

Definitions

  1. An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.

  2. An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.

  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.

verb

Definitions

  1. To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.

    Example: to trellis vines