AMERICAN LIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American lime mean? 

• AMERICAN LIME (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN LIME has 1 sense:

1. large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN LIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN LIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American basswood; American lime; Tilia americana

Hypernyms ("American lime" is a kind of...):

basswood; lime; lime tree; linden; linden tree (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)