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Linden tree

noun

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. Synonyms: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden.

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... already gathered. We must go to work. To-morrow shall be a happy day for the village; the whole neighborhood shall perceive that the twelve young men of Brunen have returned. We met a violinist on the way, and we engaged him for to-morrow. He must play for us under the linden tree, and our fathers and mothers, and sisters and sweethearts must join us, and we will dance ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

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... This is a summons, as it were, to war! Yet he is right, for this strange princess needs Quite other morning serenades than sings The lark that warbles in the linden tree. ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various

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Words linked to "Linden tree" : American basswood, Tilia cordata, American lime, Japanese linden, Tilia tomentosa, small-leaved lime, Japanese lime, cottonwood, small-leaved linden, silver linden, silver lime, white basswood, genus Tilia, Tilia americana, Tilia heterophylla, Tilia japonica, Tilia, tree