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.
See more 1 A nuthatch calls in alarm from high up in a lime tree .
2 And would there be a dwarf lime tree , shriveling and blackening?
3 The pump stood peacefully in a corner, under a lime tree , in the shade.
4 The kaffir lime tree produces fruit and leaves that make great additions to dishes.
5 Aye; I did see one of you young ladies go up that lime tree .
6 Mrs. Conant plucked little leaves assiduously from the low-hanging branch of a lime tree .
7 I saw a girl climb down the lime tree , and run away into the bushes.
8 They found a seat under a drooping lime tree .
9 He is still interested in that sweet- lime tree .
10 A lime tree , whose leaves were stirred by the languorous breeze, kept tapping against the window.
11 Overgrown with thistles and rank weeds, in the centre of which a leafy lime tree reared itself.
12 He moved a few steps back, and sat in the children's swing under an old lime tree .
13 In one hand he holds his shabby old cap, the other is hidden in an old lime tree .
14 Another buzzard follows and the two perch in a tall lime tree like gargoyles, silently watching and listening.
15 Bind him to yonder lime tree !
16 Honor Fitzgerald has just been climbing the lime tree , and she went right through the window into the study.
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