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LINDEN TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linden tree mean? 

LINDEN TREE (noun)
  The noun LINDEN TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timberplay

  Familiarity information: LINDEN TREE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LINDEN TREE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

basswood; lime; lime tree; linden; linden tree

Hypernyms ("linden tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "linden tree"):

basswood; linden (soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linden tree"):

American basswood; American lime; Tilia americana (large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown)

small-leaved lime; small-leaved linden; Tilia cordata (large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamental)

cottonwood; Tilia heterophylla; white basswood (American basswood of the Allegheny region)

Japanese lime; Japanese linden; Tilia japonica (medium-sized tree of Japan used as an ornamental)

silver lime; silver linden; Tilia tomentosa (large tree native to eastern Europe and Asia Minor having leaves with white tomentum on the under side; widely cultivated as an ornamental)

Holonyms ("linden tree" is a member of...):

genus Tilia; Tilia (deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood)


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