water tree

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water tree (plural water trees)

  1. An electrical treeing phenomenon inside insulation, caused by the presence of water inside buried or water-immersed high voltage cables.
  2. The flowering plant Grevillea berryana.
  3. The shrub or small tree Hakea leucoptera.