Decadent trees. Stands of trees with greatly reduced growth, usually occurring as one of three types: (1) over-mature trees nearing end of normal life, (2) younger trees limited by site conditions such as soil deficiencies, and (3) overcrowding due to exclusion of natural and cultural fires. Gore Lake, Vail CO.
metaphor noun [C or U]. C2 an âexpression, often âfound in âliterature, that âdescribes a âperson or âobject by referring to something that is âconsidered to have âsimilar âcharacteristics to that âperson or âobject: The âmind is an âocean and the âcity is a âjungle are both metaphors.
A visual metaphor, also called a pictorial metaphor, is a metaphor in which something (the metaphor's target) that is presented visually is compared to something that belongs to another category (the metaphor's source) of things than the first, also presented visually.