- Tilia
- noundeciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood• Syn: ↑genus Tilia• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus• Member Holonyms: ↑Tiliaceae, ↑family Tiliaceae, ↑linden family• Member Meronyms: ↑linden, ↑linden tree, ↑basswood, ↑lime, ↑lime tree
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\\ˈtilēə\ nounUsage: capitalized: a genus (the type of the family Tiliaceae) of trees that are native in temperate regions and often planted as shade trees, that are distinguished by having cordate leaves, a winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, indehiscent fruit with one or two seeds, and soft easily carved wood, and that have a strong hybridizing tendency — see basswood, linden* * *
Tilia /tilˈi-ə/nounThe lime or linden genus of flowering trees and shrubs, giving name to the family Tiliāˈceae /-si-ē/, related to the mallowsORIGIN: L tilia lime-tree• • •tiliāˈceous adjectiveBelonging to the family
Useful english dictionary. 2012.