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Meanings of lime tree in English
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.
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Examples for "lime"
Examples for "lime"
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Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
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Why, it is our best friend in the world; it is lime.
3
Turnip: phosphates, thirteen; potash, thirty-nine; soda, five; lime, ten; sulphuric acid, fourteen.
4
But we have blood in our veins and lime in our bones.
5
He squeezed some juice from the lime slice floating in the glass.
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The two symmetrical linden trees were the proudest things in the garden.
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Since olden times, the linden tree had been considered a holy tree.
3
Licorice root, perhaps, or linden flowers added later, after it was boiled.
4
The sun gilded the linden tops, already seared by the Autumn frosts.
5
Upon the sand the legions raised their standards and shining linden shields.
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Rising above the brush on the hillside was a great hollow basswood.
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Mrs. Bee was buzzing around the basswood blossoms, and Robert Robin said:
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There were pine, oak, maple, beech, basswood and a very hard wood.
4
He bore an ornate lance of black basswood, a rather princely weapon.
5
Lighter bats are made of willow; and the cheapest of basswood.
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Since olden times, the linden tree had been considered a holy tree.
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He had found her under a linden tree in the garden.
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A linden tree courted the window panes with its green branches.
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I wish I knew if a linden tree grew nearby.
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Walter stood with his back to a linden tree, patiently awaiting the exciting moment.
Usage of lime tree in English
1
A nuthatch calls in alarm from high up in a lime tree.
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And would there be a dwarf lime tree, shriveling and blackening?
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The pump stood peacefully in a corner, under a lime tree, in the shade.
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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.
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I saw a girl climb down the lime tree, and run away into the bushes.
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They found a seat under a drooping lime tree.
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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.
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Overgrown with thistles and rank weeds, in the centre of which a leafy lime tree reared itself.
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He moved a few steps back, and sat in the children's swing under an old lime tree.
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In one hand he holds his shabby old cap, the other is hidden in an old lime tree.
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Another buzzard follows and the two perch in a tall lime tree like gargoyles, silently watching and listening.
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Bind him to yonder lime tree!
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Honor Fitzgerald has just been climbing the lime tree, and she went right through the window into the study.