noun
deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood
• Syn: ↑Tilia
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Tiliaceae, ↑family Tiliaceae, ↑linden family
• Member Meronyms: ↑linden, ↑linden tree, ↑basswood, ↑lime, ↑lime tree
Useful english dictionary. 2012.