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Definition of Tilia

1. Noun. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood.

Definition of Tilia

1. n. A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family Tiliaceæ, distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about twenty species, natives of temperate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous inner bark is a valuable article of commerce. Also, a plant of this genus.

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Literary usage of Tilia

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

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Nut coriaceous, 1-celled, 1—2-seeded, from abortion.—Don, Miller's Diet. JHE genus tilia consists of timber trees, with mellifluous flowers, ..."

2. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"The flowers appear in Sapporo toward the middle of July. Like those of the American Lindens and of two species of eastern Europe, tilia petiolaris and tilia ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"tilia pubescens Ait. wood or White-wood. i. tilia Americana L,. ... tilia Canadensis Michx. Kl. Bor. Am. a: 306. 1803. A large forest tree, 6o°-i25° high, ..."

4. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1839)
"The Natural Order, tilia'CE^E, is composed of dicotyledonous trees or shrubs, with simple, ... tilia is the only British genus belonging to this order. ..."

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