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dead tree

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See dead-tree media.

(publication, jargon)dead tree - Paper.

Use of this term emphasises the waste of natural resources and limited features available from the printed form of a document compared with an electronic rendition.

E.g. "I read the dead tree edition of the Guardian on the train".

See also tree-killer.
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He thought that it might have been a dead tree on the shore, but was finally blown over into the pond, and after the top had become water-logged, while the butt-end was still dry and light, had drifted out and sunk wrong end up.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
At last Daylight glimpsed what he was looking for, a dead tree close by the bank.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
At first, from the waterfalls and number of dead trees, I could hardly crawl along; but the bed of the stream soon became a little more open, from the floods having swept the sides.
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