- present tense form of lime (3rd person singular).
limes
Americannoun
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a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
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(initial capital letter) Siegfried Line.
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an ancient Roman frontier fortification.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of limes
1530–40; < Latin līmes; see limit
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I was addicted to reading the food scenes—the Christmas feast that the March girls bring to the Hummels, the illicit pickled limes Amy sucks on at school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
She shows me ripening limes and lemons inside her allotment greenhouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
He went from standard citrus, apricot and avocado to a more exotic collection, adding finger limes, valentine pummelos, jaboticaba, cherimoya and pawpaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Nearby trees offer dragonfruit and limes, and there's even a smattering of papaya plants.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
I feed it sour limes from the dima tree to make it sneeze and wipe its bill off, one side and then the other side.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
As touching the limites and bounds of this kingdom, we may appoint the first towards the West to be a certaine Ile commonly called Hainan, which standeth in 19 degrees of Northerly latitude.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard
He reverted abruptly to the defensive policy of Augustus and began to fortify the limites on a more elaborate scale.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Consequently, when in the third century the barbarians broke through the limites they found no forces capable of checking them until they had penetrated deeply into the heart of the provinces.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
At present Epiontology is divided into geography and palaeontology, "mais cette division trop inegale et a limites bien vagues disparaitra probablement."
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
They of the limites of Famagusta do keep the statutes of the Frenchmen which sometimes did rule there.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
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