LINDEN
Dictionary entry overview: What does linden mean?
• LINDEN (noun)
The noun LINDEN 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: LINDEN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LINDEN (noun)
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 ("linden" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("linden" 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)
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:
linden tree; basswood; lime tree; linden; lime
Hypernyms ("linden" 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 "linden"):
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 "linden"):
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 ("linden" 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)
