: having a trunk especially of a specified kind
—usually used in combination
a gray-trunked tree
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Boy Scout Tree Trail, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park So named because a troop leader supposedly discovered this 2,000-year-old double-trunked redwood in the 1930s, the Boy Scout Tree Trail is Northern California at its finest.
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Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
Replace a pine tree with a Strawberry shrub (Arbutus unedo compacta), a handsome, multi-trunked shrub that can be pruned to grow tree-like with a single trunk.
—oregonlive, 2 June 2021
My Bauhaus earrings, the upside down off center U shape are lifted from this double trunked tree in our yard.
—Laura Demarco, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
All that remained were thick-trunked trees and leaves trembling slightly in the breeze.
—New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
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Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
Replace a pine tree with a Strawberry shrub (Arbutus unedo compacta), a handsome, multi-trunked shrub that can be pruned to grow tree-like with a single trunk.
—oregonlive, 2 June 2021
My Bauhaus earrings, the upside down off center U shape are lifted from this double trunked tree in our yard.
—Laura Demarco, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2019
All that remained were thick-trunked trees and leaves trembling slightly in the breeze.
—New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
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“Trunked.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trunked. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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