Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia lime trees

• Lindens
• Basswood

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Commonly called lime trees in the British Isles, they are not closely related to the lime fruit. Other names include basswood and linden . The genus ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tilia \Til"i*a\, n. [L., linden. Cf. Teil .] (Bot.) A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family Tiliace[ae] , distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any tree of the linden genus ''Tilia''.