Treant

//ˈtɹiːɛnt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fictional anthropomorphic organism having many characteristics of a tree.

    "Treants are strangely related to humans and trees, combining features of both species. ...an individual treant can cause only one or two normal trees to move and attack as stipulated."

Example

More examples

"Treants are strangely related to humans and trees, combining features of both species. ...an individual treant can cause only one or two normal trees to move and attack as stipulated."

Etymology

From tree + ent, with modification of the spelling to avoid the unusual forms treent or treeent. Used as a replacement for ent due to copyright issues; cf. halfling.

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