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Lime tree

noun

Any of various related trees bearing limes. Synonyms: Citrus aurantifolia, lime.

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. Synonyms: basswood, lime, linden, linden tree.

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"Lime tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... floated there; looked up at the house, where only narrow chinks of light showed, because of the Lighting Order. The dreamy music drifted out; there was a scent of heliotrope. He moved a few steps back, and sat in the children's swing under an old lime tree. Jolly—blissful—in the warm, bloomy dark! Of all hours of the day, this before going to bed was perhaps the pleasantest. He saw the light go up in his wife's bed room, unscreened for a full minute, and thought: 'Aha! If I did my duty as ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... across at a tall slender girl that was sitting contentedly on an outlying root of the lime tree, beside of Sir Thomas, ...

— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson

Words linked to "Lime tree" : white basswood, Tilia cordata, small-leaved lime, Tilia heterophylla, Tilia japonica, citrus, basswood, tree, Tilia americana, citrus tree, small-leaved linden, American basswood, Citrus aurantifolia, Spanish lime tree, genus Tilia, Tilia tomentosa, American lime, Tilia, silver lime, Japanese linden, silver linden, cottonwood, genus Citrus, lime, Japanese lime