Princeton's WordNet(2.25 / 8 votes)Rate this definition: 1  contract(noun) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law. 2  contract, declaration(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make.
View full size image. Until 2013, the oldest individual tree in the world was Methuselah, a 4,845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California.nd on the other side of the world, in an Andes Mountains grove in Chile, we have a 3,642-year-old Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya cupressoides). The ancient specimen, which is sometimes called the Alerce (alerce is a common Spanish name for F. cupressoides), is the third-oldest tree to have its exact age calculated.
Forget cryopreservation â hot and dry conditions might be all you need to awake far into the future. A date palm seed some 2000 years old â preserved by nothing more than storage in hot and dry conditions â has germinated, making it the oldest seed in the world to do so. The ancient seed was found along with several others in the 1960s in the Masada fortress on the edge of the Dead Sea in Israel.