christmas tree, n.All

The Christmas tree is an overpriced, temporary arboreal installation, great for sheltering seasonal gifts and raising the risk of home fires.

Christmas trees are going plastic --- artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991

Theodore Roosevelt, on environmentalist grounds, banned Christmas trees form the White house.

Christmas tree. . . originated from Germany

The Christmas tree has pagan origins. Pagans brought evergreens indoors to recognize the winter solstice.

Tinsel originates from an old tale of a spider decorating a poor family's tree with webs that turned to gold and silver in the morning sunlight