genus tilia

1. 1.

   deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood

   SynonymsTilia

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   Part ofTiliaceae

Questions about genus tilia

What does genus tilia mean?

genus tilia means "deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood".

What is another word for genus tilia?

Close synonyms include Tilia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus tilia a common word?

genus tilia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.