linden tree

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linden tree - 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 timberbasswood, lime tree, linden, limegenus Tilia, Tilia - deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswoodbasswood, linden - soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millworkAmerican basswood, American lime, Tilia americana - large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crownsmall-leaved lime, small-leaved linden, Tilia cordata - large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamentalTilia heterophylla, white basswood, cottonwood - American basswood of the Allegheny regionJapanese lime, Japanese linden, Tilia japonica - medium-sized tree of Japan used as an ornamentalsilver lime, silver linden, Tilia tomentosa - large tree native to eastern Europe and Asia Minor having leaves with white tomentum on the under side; widely cultivated as an ornamentaltree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

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tilleul