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.
1 Fortingall Yew, an ancient yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland; one of the oldest known individual trees in Europe. 2  Various estimates have put its age at between 2000 and 5000 years, although these days it is believed to be at the lower end of this range.