Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various deciduous shade trees of the genus Tilia having heart-shaped leaves, drooping cymose clusters of yellowish, often fragrant flowers, and peduncles united into a large lingulate bract. Also called basswood, lime2.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the linden.
- n. A tree of the genus Tilia; the limetree. The common European linden is T. Europæa. An oil, used by perfumers, is distilled from its flowers. The American linden is T. Americana, and is also called basswood, bee-tree, etc.
- n. A shield made of linden-wood; any shield: a modern use, translating the Anglo-Saxon lind, used poetically for a shield. See shield.
Wiktionary
- adj. made of lime-wood
- n. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves.
- n. The soft wood of such trees.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
- n. In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.
WordNet 3.0
- n. soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork
- n. 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
Etymologies
- Middle English, made of linden wood, from Old English, from lind, linden.
Examples
“The name linden is quite common with us, and it will be well for you to remember that it is also called lime, so that when you go to Europe you will know what is meant by _lime_ and”
“And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing.”
“Gluttonous Maximus - soft pretzel cheesesteak the crew eats the "linden" - a soft pretzel cheesesteak at the pop shop in collingswood nj.”
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“Lime blossom, also known as linden blossom or tilleul in French, is a source of tea and monofloral honey.”
“The southern linden, which is found along the coast is a small and rare tree.”
“Linden labs has created a virtual second life money system called linden dollars.”
“According to MS Outlook, the email address of "hal lewis" my mistake for saying "linden" in the first post: hal lewis hlewis26@cox.net”
“As i'm writing this i'm also forwarding the article to my representative in german gouvenrment, since phil "linden" is not only insulting people here, but whole countries as well. wrote:”
“Some of these trees are hundreds of years old... great oaks, maples, linden whose evening scent, in season, perfumes the air with a scent far beyond Chanel's #5 and crabapple.”
The Huffington Post: Jill Lynne: Habitat: Public vs. Private and Trees
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘linden’.
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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baby girl's names
list of potential future baby girl names.. unisex kinds too!
haley, peyton, brooke, linden, london, burberry, mercedez, ella, cori, bailey, cameron, chuck and 3 more...
hernesheir Te de tilo. Tilia. Jun 4, 2010
ruzuzu As I was walking home, I felt compelled to cup my hands around a low-hanging linden branch and breathe in its blossoms. When I started walking away, I heard a man behind me say, "Is that what that scent is?" He had some blossoms in his hand.
"Yup. Linden."
"Oh, linden. It has a great grain for woodworking." Then he told me that there were a couple of other names for it. I thought maybe he'd tell me some variation of liepa, which is what I call it when I'm shopping for linden-blossom tea, but instead he called it basswood and lime.
"There's a joke about it, too," he said. "What's the difference between linden, basswood, and lime?"
"I dunno. What?"
"The price. The fancier it sounds, the more they charge."
Jun 4, 2010
bilby
All within and all without me
Feel a melancholy thrill;
And the darkness hangs about me,
Oh, how still;
To my feet, the river glideth
Through the shadow, sullen, dark;
On the stream the white moon rideth,
Like a barque—
And the linden leans above me,
Till I think some things there be
In the dreary world that love me,
Even me!
- Thomas Buchanan Read, 'Some Things Love Me'. Mar 23, 2009
lampbane The unit of currency for the virtual world of Second Life (also called the Linden dollar). Sep 7, 2008