BASSWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basswood mean? 

• BASSWOOD (noun)
  The noun BASSWOOD has 2 senses:

1. soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork

2. 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

  Familiarity information: BASSWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASSWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

basswood; linden

Hypernyms ("basswood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("basswood" is a substance 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

basswood; lime; lime tree; linden; linden tree

Hypernyms ("basswood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "basswood"):

basswood; linden (soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "basswood"):

American basswood; American lime; Tilia americana (large American shade tree with large dark green leaves and rounded crown)

small-leaved lime; small-leaved linden; Tilia cordata (large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamental)

cottonwood; Tilia heterophylla; white basswood (American basswood of the Allegheny region)

Japanese lime; Japanese linden; Tilia japonica (medium-sized tree of Japan used as an ornamental)

silver lime; silver linden; Tilia tomentosa (large tree native to eastern Europe and Asia Minor having leaves with white tomentum on the under side; widely cultivated as an ornamental)

Holonyms ("basswood" is a member of...):

genus Tilia; Tilia (deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood)