NOUN
- any of various related trees bearing limes
- 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
How To Use lime tree In A Sentence
- Thirty years ago, if you were walking along the coast of the Netherlands and picked a two-spot ladybug off the leaf of a European lime tree, chances were that the bug would be red with black spots.
- Set at the end of a track, it's shaded by an old lime tree and surrounded by meadows. Times, Sunday Times
- Her face was stony now, void of emotion as she burrowed into the cloak and sat on a smooth rock underneath a lime tree.
- As a result of this discovery, British sailors planted lime trees at their ports of call and ate the fruit regularly; it's how the term "limey" got applied to them, and later by association to British people in general Global Nerdy
- The Lough Tree - often called The Love Tree - is a lime tree thought to be more than 200 years old.
- For later in the year you might have a lime tree or a robinia, both sweet on the air. Times, Sunday Times
- Protestors had climbed lime trees in a desperate bid to stop them being destroyed.Sentencedict
- Lime trees are a hardwood tree, and limewood's particular structural character lends itself well to carving, allowing tools to be used both along the grain and to some extent axially.
- It's the perfect antidote to modern life: a place to inhale the scent of lime trees and feel your mind and body relax. The Sun
- The wind was stirring in the bare branches of the lime trees outside. Seminary Boy
