lime tree

American  

noun

1. a linden or basswood.

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Etymology

Origin of lime tree

First recorded in 1615–25

Example Sentences

The team of 10 spent more than 700 hours creating the boats from a fallen lime tree donated by Boughton House, near Kettering.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

A few years ago, Hailing Jin, a plant molecular geneticist at University of California, Riverside, isolated a peptide from the citrus greening–tolerant finger lime tree that confers tolerance in other citrus trees.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2022

“Wait, there’s no way a lime tree smells this good,” she said, inhaling deeply.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2019

When I was a kid in Bombay, I tried growing a lime tree in a pot on a windowsill at home and it didn’t work out too well, yielding only one fruit.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2019

She sat between the roots of the lime tree, clad in a one- piece smock of green girded with a quiver of arrows, and her feet and arms were bare.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White