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Linden

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Noun

1. basswood, linden

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

2. basswood, lime, lime tree, linden, 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 timber

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Linden

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noun
any of various tiliaceous deciduous trees of the N temperate genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves and small fragrant yellowish flowers: cultivated for timber and as shade trees
See also lime3, basswood

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Linden

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noun
1. 
basswood
adjective
2. 
designating a family (Tiliaceae) of chiefly tropical, dicotyledonous trees (order Malvales), including the jutes

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Linden

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n.
Any of various deciduous shade trees of the genus Tilia of the mallow family, having heart-shaped leaves and clusters of yellowish fragrant flowers that hang from a leaflike bract. Also called basswood, lime2.

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