Main Difference
The main difference between Tree and Plant is that the Tree is a perennial woody plant and Plant is a multicellular eukaryote of the kingdom Plantae.
Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant species that have independently evolved a woody trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees. Trees have been in existence for 370 million years. It is estimated that there are just over 3 trillion mature trees in the world.A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically contains woody tissue for strength, and vascular tissue to carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees it is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier. Below the ground, the roots branch and spread out widely; they serve to anchor the tree and extract moisture and nutrients from the soil. Above ground, the branches divide into smaller branches and shoots. The shoots typically bear leaves, which capture light energy and convert it into sugars by photosynthesis, providing the food for the tree’s growth and development.
Trees usually reproduce using seeds. Flowers and fruit may be present, but some trees, such as conifers, instead have pollen cones and seed cones. Palms, bananas, and bamboos also produce seeds, but tree ferns produce spores instead.
Trees play a significant role in reducing erosion and moderating the climate. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store large quantities of carbon in their tissues. Trees and forests provide a habitat for many species of animals and plants. Tropical rainforests are among the most biodiverse habitats in the world. Trees provide shade and shelter, timber for construction, fuel for cooking and heating, and fruit for food as well as having many other uses. In parts of the world, forests are shrinking as trees are cleared to increase the amount of land available for agriculture. Because of their longevity and usefulness, trees have always been revered, with sacred groves in various cultures, and they play a role in many of the world’s mythologies.
Plant
Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants. However, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for “green plants”), a group that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and the green algae, but excludes the red and brown algae.
Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll or to photosynthesize. Plants are characterized by sexual reproduction and alternation of generations, although asexual reproduction is also common.
There are about 320 thousand species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260–290 thousand, are seed plants (see the table below). Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world’s molecular oxygen and are the basis of most of Earth’s ecosystems, especially on land. Plants that produce grain, fruit and vegetables form humankind’s basic foods, and have been domesticated for millennia. Plants have many cultural and other uses, as ornaments, building materials, writing material and, in great variety, they have been the source of medicines and psychoactive drugs. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology.
Tree (noun)
A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk that grows in girth with age and branches (that also grow in circumference with age).
“w|Hyperion (tree)|Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.”
“Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.”
Tree (noun)
Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense.
“the banana tree”
Tree (noun)
An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple platforms.
“He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.”
Tree (noun)
A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
“ux|en|He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.”
Tree (noun)
The structural frame of a saddle.
Tree (noun)
A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and n-1 edges.
Tree (noun)
A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
Tree (noun)
A entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
“We’ll show it as a tree list.”
Tree (noun)
Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
“family tree; skill tree”
Tree (noun)
The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
Tree (noun)
Marijuana.
Tree (noun)
A cross or gallows.
“Tyburn tree”
Tree (noun)
wood; timber
Tree (noun)
A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
Tree (noun)
The fifth Lenormand card.
Tree (verb)
To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
“The dog treed the cat.”
Tree (verb)
To place in a tree.
“Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.”
Tree (verb)
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
“to tree a boot”
Plant (noun)
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
“The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.”
Plant (noun)
An b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
Plant (noun)
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
Plant (noun)
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Plant (noun)
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
Plant (noun)
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
“That gun’s not mine! It’s a plant! I’ve never seen it before!”
Plant (noun)
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
Plant (noun)
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
Plant (noun)
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
Plant (noun)
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
Plant (noun)
A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
Plant (noun)
The sole of the foot.
Plant (noun)
A plan; a swindle; a trick.
Plant (noun)
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
Plant (noun)
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
Plant (verb)
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
Plant (verb)
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
“That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!”
Plant (verb)
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
“Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.”
“to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground”
Plant (verb)
To place in the ground.
Plant (verb)
To furnish or supply with plants.
“to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest”
Plant (verb)
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
Plant (verb)
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
“to plant a colony”
Plant (verb)
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
“to plant Christianity among the heathen”
Plant (verb)
To set up; to install; to instate.
Tree (noun)
a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.
Tree (noun)
(in general use) any bush, shrub, or herbaceous plant with a tall erect stem, e.g. a banana plant.
Tree (noun)
a wooden structure or part of a structure.
Tree (noun)
the cross on which Christ was crucified.
Tree (noun)
a gibbet.
Tree (noun)
a thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.
Tree (noun)
a diagram with a structure of branching connecting lines, representing different processes and relationships.
Tree (verb)
force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.
Tree (verb)
force (someone) into a difficult situation.
Tree (verb)
(of an area) planted with trees
“sparsely treed grasslands”
Plant (noun)
a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.
Plant (noun)
a small plant, as distinct from a shrub or tree
“garden plants”
Plant (noun)
a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place
“a giant car plant”
Plant (noun)
machinery used in an industrial or manufacturing process
“inadequate investment in new plant”
Plant (noun)
a person placed in a group as a spy or informer
“we thought he was a CIA plant spreading disinformation”
Plant (noun)
a thing put among someone’s belongings to incriminate or compromise them.
Plant (noun)
a shot in which the cue ball is made to strike one of two touching or nearly touching balls with the result that the second is potted.
Plant (verb)
put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow
“we planted a lot of fruit trees”
Plant (verb)
cover or supply (an area of land) with plants
“the garden is planted with herbs”
Plant (verb)
place a plant in the ground out of doors so it can grow, especially after growing it from seed in an indoor environment
“the foxgloves are grown from seed and planted out in the autumn”
Plant (verb)
bury (someone)
“it was raining when we planted him”
Plant (verb)
set or place in a particular position
“she planted a kiss on his cheek”
“he planted himself squarely in front of her”
Plant (verb)
establish (an idea) in someone’s mind
“the seed of doubt is planted in his mind”
Plant (verb)
secretly place (a bomb that is set to go off at a later time)
“several incendiary devices were planted in stores”
Plant (verb)
put or hide (something) among someone’s belongings to compromise or incriminate the owner
“they claimed that the drugs had been planted on them by police”
Plant (verb)
send (someone) to join a group or organization to act as a spy or informer
“he managed to plant an agent in his war council”
Plant (verb)
found or establish (a colony, city, or community)
“he was commissioned to plant the order in England”
Plant (verb)
deposit (young fish, spawn, oysters, etc.) in a river or lake.