noun
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
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Hyponyms:
↑American basswood, ↑American lime, ↑Tilia americana, ↑small-leaved linden, ↑small-leaved lime, ↑Tilia cordata, ↑white basswood, ↑cottonwood, ↑Tilia heterophylla, ↑Japanese linden, ↑Japanese lime, ↑Tilia japonica, ↑silver lime, ↑silver linden, ↑Tilia tomentosa
• Member Holonyms: ↑Tilia, ↑genus Tilia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.