linden

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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.

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  1. noun 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.

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  • First and best was the basswood (linden): then came maple, beech, birch and hemlock. —  Woodcraft
  • [Greek text omitted Such an evening it was, while Matilda presided O'er the rustic arrangements thus daily provided With the Duke, and a small German Prince with a thick head And an old Russian Countess both witty and wicked And two Austrian Colonels,--that Alfred, who yet Was lounging alone with his last cigarette Saw Lucile de Nevers by herself pacing slow Neath the shade of the cool linden-trees to and fro And joining her, cried, "Thank the good stars, we meet I have so much to say to you Yes with her sweet Serene voice, she replied to him Yes? —  Lucile
  • And before she could modify her speech he had answered, impetuously: "Never, until you send me away A mottled thrush on the top of the linden-tree surveyed the scene curiously. —  Lorraine A romance
  • The combined effects of all these causes was to make this a spot devoted to billing and cooing Farther up the stream the rock walls grew lower and parted wider, islanding a rich bottom of lush grass-plot, alternating with groves of walnut, linden, and elm. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
  • From the acorn is developed the oak, never the pine or the linden. —  The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
 

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  1. Middle English, made of linden wood, from Old English, from lind, linden.

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  1. Formerly also lynden; from Middle English linden, from Anglo-Saxon linden (= German linden), of the lind, from , lind, lind, + -en: see lind and -en. As a noun the word is modern, being, like aspen, orig. only adjective
 

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