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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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

  1. Of the linden.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. adj. obsolete made of lime-wood
  2. n. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves.
  3. n. The soft wood of such trees.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.
  2. n. In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork
  2. 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

  1. From Old English linden. The noun developed from the adjective. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, made of linden wood, from Old English, from lind, linden. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. wood

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. sweet gum
  2. catalpa
  3. cottonwood
  4. basswood
  1. horse-chestnut
  2. sycamore
  3. buckeye
  4. mulberry
  1. hickory
  2. hawthorn
  3. elm
  4. eucalyptus
  1. dogwood
  2. tamarack
  3. locust
  4. cedar
  1. acacia
  2. hemlocks
  3. lime-tree
  4. mimosa

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. lynden

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tilia cordata
  2. small-leaved lime
  3. small-leaved linden
  4. lime
  5. Lind
  6. lynde
  7. ladder-beetle
  8. Lenten
  1. lynden
  2. basswood
  3. linden
  4. ladder beetle
  5. teil
  6. tillet
  7. til-tree
  8. willow-cimbex
  1. pentadelphous
  2. bass
  3. bast-tree
  4. bee-tree
  5. lind-coal
  6. linden-tree
  7. lind-tree
  8. Philemon
  1. Baucis
  2. Elizabeth
  3. adamantine
  4. perspective
  5. tillet-tree
  6. russia matting
  7. tiliaceous
  8. bast
  1. sloanea
  2. smerinthus
  3. sparmannia
  4. anilao
  5. dadangsi
  6. linden-borer
  7. linden-worm
  8. maiden's-blush
  1. tibourbou
  2. tiliadin
  3. whau
  4. tiliaceæ

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  • 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

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