lime-tree

noun — 2 senses

noun

A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.

His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:

Any of various trees of the genus Citrus that bear limes.

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