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Definition of Silver lime

1. Noun. Large tree native to eastern Europe and Asia Minor having leaves with white tomentum on the under side; widely cultivated as an ornamental.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Lime

Literary usage of Silver lime

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1902)
"In other parts of the camp, where no silver-lime impregnations exist, ... The condition of the silver-lime ore- body here is an interesting commentary on ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"In the silver lime (Tilia argentea, figs. 151 1 and 1512) a whorl of Fig. 161.—Flowers of the silver lime (Tuia argentea), and of a species of Arrow-grasi ..."

3. Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of by Royal College of Physicians of London, Richard Phillips (1841)
"... bichloride of mercury, that would be dissolved by water; and from this solution nitrate of silver would throw down chloride of silver; lime-water, ..."

4. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1902)
"In other parts of the camp, where no silver-lime impregnations exist, ... The condition of the silver-lime ore- body here is an interesting commentary on ..."

5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"A species of lime, a native of Southern Europe, viz. the silver lime (Tilia ... In the compass plants and also in the silver lime the alterations in the ..."

6. Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples: A Manual of Comparative by Otto Schrader, Frank Byron Jevons (1890)
"It is only on the Macedonian mountains that the so-called silver-lime tree appears (Lenz, Botanik, p. 639; Fraas, Synopsis, p. 99). ..."

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