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GENUS TILIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood
Synonyms:
genus Tilia; Tilia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Tilia" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Tilia"):
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)
Holonyms ("genus Tilia" is a member of...):
family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae (chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia)
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