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basswood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basswood \Bass"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The bass ( Tilia) or its wood; especially, Tilia Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.
All the bowls were made of basswood,
White and polished very smoothly.
--Longfellow.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) Any of several trees of the genus ''Tilia''; the lindens, especially (taxlink Tilia americana species noshow=1), the American basswood.
WordNet
n. soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork [syn: linden]
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 [syn: linden, linden tree, lime, lime tree]
Wikipedia
Basswood is the common name of the genus Tilia.
Basswood may also refer to:
- Basswood, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Basswood, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Basswood Island, an island in Wisconsin
- Basswood River, a river in the United States and Canada
Usage examples of "basswood".
Hiawatha Led the strangers to his wigwam, Seated them on skins of bison, Seated them on skins of ermine, And the careful old Nokomis Brought them food in bowls of basswood, Water brought in birchen dippers, And the calumet, the peace-pipe, Filled and lighted for their smoking.
The hollowed-out basswood where his mother lay smelled of wet earth and rotten things.
Its mud walls were braced with crossing timbers as big as a full-grown man, and its ceiling was formed from whole basswood logs mounted on brackets.
I lean back in the lounging chair I constructed from bent saplings held together with rope made from the inner bark of the basswood tree, and enjoy the primitive forest.
Alice shinnied up a rope she had made of basswood bark, and I followed.
I find a basswood tree, take out my knife, and cut off several branches.
She can catch fish with a thorn hook and a line of braided basswood, and she knows the wild edible plants.
William Basswood, and then watch my little man become chairman of the board!
William Basswood, she found two copies of The Tattooed Countess on sale in the cigar store of one Mr.
The basswood was fully three feet in diameter, and leaned slightly toward the brook.
At first we thought that the basswood was going to break clear, but it finally hung precariously against the hemlock at a height of thirty feet or more above the bed of the brook.
Judging from the ticklish way the basswood hung on it, the task looked dangerous.
We climbed down into the gully, however, and, with many an apprehensive glance aloft where the top of the basswood hung threateningly over our heads, approached the foot of the hemlock and began to chop it.
Breathless, I now glanced downward and was terrified to see that in falling the basswood had carried away the lower branches of the hemlock and left no means of climbing down.
He had lost track of us in the woods for a time, but had finally heard the basswood fall and then had found us.